How is rheumatism diagnosed

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My mother suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for more than 2 years. Now the situation is more serious. Her hands are swollen and the pain is unbearable. Now it's not obvious to take medicine. Now my colleagues want to know where to treat it better. In order to prevent you from the same disease, I'd like to introduce how to diagnose rheumatism.

How is rheumatism diagnosed

Symptom 1: in fact, there are many kinds of symptoms, such as redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction in the early stage, stiffness and deformity in different degrees in the late stage, bone and skeletal muscle atrophy, which is a disease with high disability rate.

Symptom 2: the disease makes the patient very uncomfortable. There are individual differences in the condition and course of disease, ranging from transient and mild oligoarthritis to rapidly progressive polyarthritis. The proximal interphalangeal joints, metacarpophalangeal joints, wrist, elbow, shoulder, knee and toe joints were the most common.

Symptom 3: very inconvenient movement, cervical spine, temporomandibular joint, sternoclavicular joint and acromioclavicular joint can also be involved, with limited movement; hip joint involvement is rare. Arthritis is often characterized by symmetrical, persistent swelling and tenderness, and morning stiffness often lasts more than 1 hour.

matters needing attention

In life, we must pay attention to diet, and some other things need to be paid attention to is to maintain a good attitude. From the perspective of pathological changes, rheumatoid arthritis is a major type of joint synovium (later can affect articular cartilage, bone tissue, joint ligament and tendon) The second was serosa, heart, lung and eye.