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About Arthritis:-
Arthritis is not a single disease but a number of different disorders that can affect the joints at any stage of life, from the early days of childhood until the closing stages of old age. Arthritis has two key characteristics—joint pain and inflammation. Some people with arthritis only have pain but most have a combination of the two. To make sense of arthritis it is important to understand some key general information, such as the types of joints and the causes and consequences of joint inflammation
The hallmark of arthritis is joint inflammation, which leads to tenderness and swelling. People with arthritis usually complain of joint stiffness as well. The many types of arthritis can be divided into inflammatory and degenerative groups, although the distinction is not always clear-cut. In inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis, there is more swelling of the soft tissues around a joint, and stiffness is most noticeable in the morning, when it may last an hour or more
Degenerative arthritis, such as osteoarthritis, is characterized by more bony swelling and less soft-tissue swelling; stiffness usually occurs at rest or after exercise. When only one joint is involved the condition is sometimes called amonoarthritis. When many joints are affected the condition may be described as a polyarthritis. Oligoarthritis is sometimes used to describe a condition involving a few joints. One feature of some forms of arthritis is that similar joints are involved on both sides of the body. This symmetrical joint involvement is very typical of rheumatoid arthritis
Progressive damage to your joints makes your muscles weak, making you less active. Third, the chronic pain wears you out and restricts the amount of exercise you are able to do. Finally, the conditions that are commonly associated with arthritis can put a strain on your quality of life. Many forms of arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis, are associated with changes in the skin or internal organs because they affect all the systems in the body, not just locally in the joints.