Rheumatic Diseases
The word "Rheumatic Disease" refers to a variety of ailments that affect the bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and cartilage (arthritis refers to disorders that mainly affect the joints). The symptoms of rheumatic diseases are Joint pain, swelling in a joint or joints, Joint stiffness that lasts for at least 1 hour in the early morning, Chronic pain or tenderness in a joint or joints, etc.
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- Sjogren syndrome.
- Dermatomyositis/polymyositis.
- Scleroderma/systemic sclerosis.
- Ankylosing spondylitis.