| Arthritis refers to a variety of diseases that affects | | | | symptoms. |
| the mucoskeletal system and specifically the joints. It | | | | The most common symptoms of arthritis are pain, |
| has affected a lot of people especially those who are | | | | inflammation, and disabled or limited function of the |
| in their fifties and those who are affected by arthritis | | | | joints in the body. People who are affected by arthritis |
| cannot do their normal every day routines anymore | | | | experience pain in the affected areas which are more |
| because they are already disabled by it. Arthritis is | | | | commonly the knees, the hips, and the spine at the |
| usually referred to as a single disease but in medical | | | | back. Inflammation refers to the swelling and redness |
| terms, it actually refers to more than a hundred | | | | of the joints that are affected and this can be felt |
| medical conditions. | | | | through the warmth and tenderness of the joints. |
| The word arthritis actually comes from the Greek | | | | Other symptoms of arthritis are also fatigue and |
| word arthron which means joint and the Latin word itis | | | | weight loss. Due to the inflammation of the joints, the |
| which means inflammation. So from the root words, it | | | | people affected by arthritis find themselves going |
| can already be implied that arthritis refers to | | | | through fatigue because of the pain and abnormalities |
| inflammation of the joints. | | | | that they feel. Weight loss is also inevitable because |
| The most common form of arthritis in which the old | | | | the arthritis patient will find it hard to maintain their diet |
| people around us are suffering is osteoarthritis. | | | | with the kind of pain they are going through. |
| Osteoarthritis refers to the pain that is an effect of the | | | | So let us all be aware about arthritis and when we |
| loss of cartilage in commonly weight bearing joints | | | | observe these symptoms, we cannot be ignorant |
| such as the joints that are in the knees, the hips, and | | | | about it anymore because we already know that it is |
| the spine. | | | | probably arthritis already. It really does a lot of help to |
| Both men and women are affected by arthritis. It does | | | | have at least an overview of what arthritis is all about |
| not choose gender. So all of us are not exempted in | | | | and how it affects people. And by the way, the kind of |
| having the tendency to have arthritis and therefore we | | | | doctor who specializes in treating arthritis patients is |
| should take good care of ourselves so as to be | | | | called a rheumatologist. |
| aware of what arthritis is all about especially its | | | | |