All Rheumatic Diseases
Rheumatic diseases affect your joints tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles. Among them are many types of arthritis, a term used for conditions that affect your joints.
Sometimes they’re called musculoskeletal diseases. Common symptoms include joint pain, loss of motion and redness/swelling in an affected area. The medical field that studies these types of conditions is called rheumatology.
Connective Tissue Autoimmune Diseases
This includes many diseases such as Systemic Lupus, Scleroderma, Sjogren's disease and Myositis but also conditions that cannot be classified easily.
As much as 25 percent of rheumatic disease patients with systemic symptoms cannot be definitively diagnosed. Furthermore, the majority of these patients will remain undiagnosed during 5 to 10 years of follow-up.
Musculoskeletal Complaint
A rheumatologist is a physician who manages patients with bone, joint and muscle disorders that DO NOT require surgery as part of their management.
Musculoskeletal conditions may result from a wide range of processes including injury, inflammation, infection, metabolic or endocrinological conditions and the normal aging process.
Joint Diseases
A joint is where two or more bones come together, like the knee, hip, elbow, or shoulder. Joints can be damaged by many types of injuries or diseases but this often includes arthritis.
Arthritis is inflammation of one or more of your joints. The main symptoms of arthritis are joint pain and stiffness, which typically worsen with age. The most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a common disease that is characterised by low bone mass, micro architectural disruption, and skeletal fragility, resulting in an increased risk of fracture.
The burden of suffering associated with osteoporosis is related to the increased incidence of fractures in individuals with low bone mass and micro architectural deterioration. Fragility fractures are defined as fractures that occur following a fall from standing height or less or with no trauma.
