Early symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis?

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Ankylosing spondylitis is to sacroiliac joint and spinal attachment point inflammation as the main symptoms of the disease. Ankylosing spondylitis belongs to the category of rheumatism. It is a kind of serum negative spondyloarthropathy. The etiology of this disease is still unclear. It is a chronic disease with the spine as the main lesion. It can involve sacroiliac joint, cause spinal ankylosis and fibrosis, and cause eye, lung, musculoskeletal lesions in different degrees. It is an autoimmune disease. For the initial symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis, its clinical manifestation is that its onset is generally hidden, and there are no clinical symptoms in the early stage. Some patients will have mild systemic symptoms in the early stage, such as emaciation, fatigue, anorexia and mild anemia.

Early symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis?

In the lumbar lesions, when the lumbar spine is involved, most of them are manifested as lower back and lumbar movement limitation, lumbar flexion, back body lateral bending and movement can be limited. In physical examination, you can find lumbar spinous process tenderness, lumbar paraspinal muscle spasm, and lumbar muscle atrophy in the later stage.

There are also a small number of patients with cervical or several vertebrae broken, at the same time will be invaded, you can invade the surrounding joints, early lesions joint inflammatory pain will be accompanied by periarticular muscle spasm. It can also be manifested as nocturnal pain, which can be relieved by activities or taking analgesics.

When going out, because the disease is relatively mild, most patients can not be found early, which will delay the disease and lose the best opportunity for treatment. The manifestation of joint disease, there are the vast majority of people, the first will invade the sacroiliac joint, later upward will develop to the cervical spine.

matters needing attention

There are a small number of patients with cervical spondylitis, first neck pain, along the neck to the head of the arm radiation, neck muscle spasm at the beginning, then atrophy, disease progression can develop to cervicothoracic kyphosis deformity.