What Are The Different Types Of Arthritis?
The word arthritis means joint inflammation and if you think that arthritis is a single disease you are wrong. There are more than 100 rheumatic ailments which have characteristics of pain, stiffness, pain, and swelling. Some types of rheumatic diseases can be very fatal and life threatening too. Here are few forms of arthritis - osteoarthritis, rheumatoid Arthritis, juvenile Arthritis, psoriatic Arthritis, fibromyalgia, Gout, Pseudogout / CPPD, scleroderma, Lupus / Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. All these types of inflammatory arthritis have different causes of their occurrence. Though most of them have some common symptoms but some have specific symptoms which helps doctors to diagnose them and detect the condition for early treatment.