Cervical spine involvement in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) presents a significant clinical challenge, as inflammatory processes inherent to RA can affect both the structural integrity and neurological ...

Heinola, Finland - Cervical spine involvement is common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory rheumatic disease such as psoriatic arthritis. Chronic inflammation can injure the ...

Rheumatoid arthritis often involves your wrists, knees, and feet. But it can also affect your spine. Most of the time, this kind of back pain responds well to arthritis treatments such as biologics.

Complications were significantly associated with low height, high-dose prednisolone use, and progression of cervical spine lesions in early disease stages of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A small study ...

SPINAL involvement in rheumatoid arthritis in children has occasionally been noted in the literature, but never emphasized or adequately described. At the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston, an ...

Many types of arthritis can affect your musculoskeletal system. Joints are physical points of connection between two bones, and cartilage is the tissue that covers the surface of the bone at the joint ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Health care visits related to symptoms or concerns regarding the neck are common. Although musculoskeletal neck pain is usually ...

Neck arthritis is common and affects more than 85% of people over the age of 60. Symptoms of neck arthritis include neck pain ...

Figure 2. The patient also had arthritis mutilans of the hands. A UTI triggers complications in a patient with two forms of arthritis. Mr. G, aged 74, came to the ambulatory-care clinic initially for ...

A recent study demonstrates how the chronic inflammation that characterizes rheumatoid arthritis affects the brain. The results may explain the cognitive symptoms described as “brain fog.” Share on ...