Symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis

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Ankylosing spondylitis mainly occurs in the waist and legs, spine and other parts, seriously affecting the daily life of patients, suffering from ankylosing spondylitis to actively check and treat, many patients are concerned about the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis, in order to get better treatment and rehabilitation, it is necessary to fully understand the symptoms, the following is to explain what the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis.

Symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis

Morning stiffness: morning stiffness is also one of the common early symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. Generally, when you get up in the morning, you feel that your waist is flat, stiff and tight, especially tired. You feel much better after the activity. In addition to activities, hot compress and hot bath can also relieve morning stiffness. Morning stiffness is also one of the indicators of disease activity, which can last for the whole day when the disease is serious.

Low back pain or discomfort: low back pain or discomfort is one of the important symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis, 90% of patients have such symptoms, its occult, often occult pain, difficult to locate, more easily misdiagnosed and ignored. If you feel low back pain with mild discomfort symptoms, but did not pay attention to: or only feel lumbar stiffness, muscle soreness, or paravertebral tenderness, that is, ligament, tendon bone attachment point inflammation, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as rheumatic pain, fibrositis, neuropsychiatric pain by doctors.

Peripheral joint symptoms: ankylosing spondylitis is generally characterized by axial joint involvement, but there are still half of patients with peripheral joint involvement as the first symptom, especially easy to be misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Ankylosing spondylitis is mainly affected by peripheral joints, such as hip joint, knee joint and ankle joint. Knee joint injury is the main symptom of ankylosing spondylitis.

matters needing attention

Any disease will affect people's physical and mental health, ankylosing spondylitis is the same, to understand the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis, so as to better treat, so as to reduce the harm to the body. In daily life to do preventive measures, can reduce the occurrence of disease, so as to have a good health.