
With over a 100 different forms of arthritis, it can be difficult to determine which type a patients has. Pinpointing arthritis symptoms can help expedite the diagnoses of arthritis.Arthritis means joint inflammation, and this is a result of having arthritis. Some forms of arthritis can actually affect body's...
Lyme disease is named for the area in Connecticut where patients were studied due to the resemblance in their symptoms. Once the disease was found, it took a couple of years to isolate how it was transmitted and what actually produced it. A bacterium, borrelia burgdorferi, causes the infection and is transmitted through deer tick stings. The initial sign of Lyme disease infection is the appearance of a rash in generally circular form (bull's eye rash) that spreads rather quickly (e...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive, systemic, autoimmune disease for which there is no current cure. It is a common disorder affecting more than 2.1 million Americans.Patients who present with complications of RA outside the joints- what is termed extra-articular disease- are at particular risk for early death. Extraarticular...
There are more than 100 different kinds of arthritis. Most of them involve inflammation. When a patient goes to a rheumatologist to get a diagnosis, there is a process of elimination in order to arrive at the proper diagnosis. This process of elimination is called "differential diagnosis."Differential diagnosis can be... Many doctors have refused to accept that both arthritis and rheumatism, are either caused, or at the very least seriously affected, by diet. Most people over the age of thirty, will notice a twinge or an ache somewhere, if they persist in eating something that is bad for them. In...



