Everything you want to know about Rheumatology and Rheumatologic disease!
What are rheumatologic conditions?
Rheumatology deals with over 100 disease conditions wherein joint pain is a common feature. Those conditions lead to pain in a ‘joint area’ and can be from within the joint or from nearby structures such as muscles, ligaments, and bones. There are multiple symptoms that would lead to the patient being diagnosed with Rheumatic Disease. Those conditions could be related to pain in single joints or multiple joints along with swelling in some cases. The underlying condition can be osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, septic arthritis, systemic lupus, vasculitis, or just soft tissue rheumatism. All these are some of the conditions that come under the scope of Rheumatology as a super specialty of Medicine.
What are the caus...