What are the symptoms of a broken lower arm?

Arm pain is a manifestation of pain in the lower arm and limbs. Sometimes this symptom recurs, and is more common in the knees, multiple small arthritis, or some joint pain in the fingers and wrists. In the early stages, it may manifest as redness, swelling, heat and pain. These problems sometimes seriously affect the limb dysfunction, and this phenomenon may also be caused by rheumatoid arthritis.

1. Its prominent clinical manifestations are: recurrent, symmetrical, multiple small arthritis, most commonly in the joints of the hands, palms, wrists, toes, etc.

2. In the early stage, symptoms include redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction . In the late stage, the joints may become stiff and deformed to varying degrees, and there may be bone and skeletal muscle atrophy. It is a disease with a high disability rate.

3. From the perspective of pathological changes, rheumatoid arthritis is a widespread inflammatory disease that mainly affects the synovial membrane of the joints (which may later spread to the articular cartilage, bone tissue, joint ligaments and tendons), and secondly the serous membrane, heart, lungs, eyes and other connective tissues. Therefore, in addition to the above-mentioned symptoms of arthritis, patients may also have other systemic manifestations, such as fever, fatigue, weight loss, subcutaneous nodules, pericarditis, pleurisy, peripheral neuropathy, eye lesions, arteritis, etc.

4. The condition and course of the disease vary from individual to individual, ranging from short-lived, mild oligoarthritis to rapidly progressive polyarthritis. The most commonly affected joints are the proximal interphalangeal joints, metacarpophalangeal joints, wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees and toe joints; the cervical spine, temporomandibular joints, sternoclavicular and acromioclavicular joints may also be affected, with limited mobility; hip joint involvement is rare.

5. Severely ill patients suffer from fibrous or bony ankylosis of the joints, and lose joint function due to atrophy and spasm of the muscles around the joints, making them unable to take care of themselves. In addition to joint symptoms, extra-articular or visceral damage may also occur, such as rheumatoid nodules, heart, lung, kidney, peripheral nerve and eye lesions.