Rheumatism of the joints is one of the diseases that causes severe pain that may prevent the patient from practicing his daily life normally, and women are considered more susceptible than men to this disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, where the body's immune system reacts to healthy cells as if they were foreign bodies to the body, and destroys them, causing deformities in the joints. This is the difference between rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism.
What are the common causes of rheumatism?
Most cases of rheumatic diseases occur when the immune system attacks, and sometimes there are reasons related to genes or other reasons such as cigarette smoking, pollution, or anything that causes the infection.
Common symptoms of rheumatism include:
- Joint pain.
- Loss of movement in the joint or joints.
- Inflammation, swelling, redness, or warmth in the affected area.
What is the difference between rheumatism and arthritis?
There are similarities between the symptoms of both diseases, but rheumatism is a more general term that describes a wide range of diseases that can affect the muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones or joints, but rheumatoid arthritis is a type of rheumatic disease.
Examples of some types of conditions and symptoms that require a visit to a rheumatologist:
Lower back pain and neck pain
Severe back pain in children
Some sports injuries
Inflammation of muscles, muscle tendons and tendon sheaths
Rheumatic fever resulting from tonsillitis
As a result of gout
Bone spur in heel
Numbness of the extremities
Coldness and discoloration of the hands and feet
Osteoporosis
Immune system diseases that affect the motor system, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus
Osteoarthritis: osteoarthritis of the knee, osteoarthritis of the neck vertebrae, and osteoarthritis of the back vertebrae
Slipped disc
Sciatica
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