If you feel pain and stiffness in your body or have trouble moving around, you might have arthritis. Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Over time, a swollen joint can become severely damaged. Some kinds of arthritis can also cause problems in your organs, such as your eyes or skin.
One type of arthritis, osteoarthritis, is often related to aging or to an injury. Other types occur when your immune system, which normally protects your body from infection, attacks your body's own tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of this kind of arthritis. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of the disease that happens in children. (National Library of Medicine (NLM)
What Ache's do you have?
You wake up in the morning, feel a little stiff and achy and wonder if these are arthritis symptoms. Your knees pop and hurt. You get out of bed and stretch, have your coffee, and take a shower. Within an hour or two you're feeling pretty good. Could this be degenerative arthritis? Learn more about Arthritis Symptoms - Osteoarthritis or degenerative arthritis.
Cure for rheumatoid arthritis? 5:35 mins
Cure for autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, rheumatoid, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis? Targetting specific immune cells to restore normal immune system with potentially very few side effects. Medical research using immunology. But will pharmaceutical companies wish or be able to fund such research? It will be a technique not a therapy to be sold. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.
