Ankylosing spondyloarthritis

Ankylosing spondylarthritis is a chronic disease that mainly occurs in the spine and its surrounding areas. It often manifests as pain in the lower back and back. In severe cases, spinal deformities and other phenomena may also occur. Compared with other medical conditions, it is more serious. When the above early symptoms appear, you should seek medical advice in time to avoid missing the best treatment opportunity due to untimely treatment, which may cause irreversible phenomena.

If the treatment of ankylosing spondylarthritis relies solely on drugs, it will definitely cause certain physical harm to the patient. Therefore, on the basis of early detection and early treatment, changes should also be made in lifestyle habits so that auxiliary drugs can achieve better and faster treatment effects.

Although all patients with ankylosing spondylitis have varying degrees of sacroiliac joint involvement, complete spinal fusion is rare in clinical practice. Inflammatory low back pain caused by sacroiliitis is insidious, difficult to localize, and felt deep in the buttocks. At the beginning of the disease, the pain is often unilateral and intermittent. After a few months, it gradually becomes bilateral and continuous, and pain also occurs in the lower lumbar spine. Typical symptoms are worsening of symptoms after prolonged sitting or upon awakening in the morning ("morning stiffness"), which improve with physical activity or a hot bath. Tendinitis is the main feature of spondyloarthritis. The inflammation originates from the site where the ligament or joint capsule of the affected joint is attached to the bone, near the joint ligament, as well as the synovium, cartilage and subchondral bone. Synovitis in spondyloarthropathies is often associated with clinically unrecognized enthesitis and, at least in some joints, is only a secondary inflammation. Systemic symptoms include fatigue, malaise, anorexia, weight loss, and low-grade fever. Ankylosing spondylitis is a systemic disease with both joint and extra-articular manifestations.

The above is a detailed introduction to ankylosing spondylitis. Through the above introduction, I believe you have a deeper understanding of this disease, and when you encounter this symptom again, you will be able to make a preliminary judgment. However, you still need to go to the hospital for diagnosis and make a scientific diagnosis of the disease in a timely manner so that the disease can be better treated.