Arthritis: Health guide

This brief guide is intended to provide health information. It is a representative, rather than comprehensive, list of organizations and publications on the topic of arthritis. This guide does not imply recommendation of any treatment and should not be substituted for the advice of a health care provider.

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Arthritis

Arthritis ('arth' meaning joint, 'itis' meaning inflammation) isn't a one-note story or even a few variations on a single theme; it actually consists of more than 100 different conditions. These can be anything from relatively mild forms of tendinitis (as in 'tennis elbow') and bursitis to crippling systemic forms, such as rheumatoid arthritis. There are pain syndromes like fibromyalgia and arthritis-related disorders, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, that involve every part of the body. There are forms of the disease, such as gout, that almost nobody connects with arthritis, and there are other conditions - like osteoarthritis, the misnamed 'wear and tear' arthritis - that a good many people think is the only form of the disease. [Source: The Arthritis Society. This site also provides definitions on other forms of arthritis]

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Updated: January 2009