Arthritis Chronicle

Clinicians often push the message of how important that it is to intervene early in the development of inflammatory arthritis in order to better control the condition in the long term. There are many ways that inflammatory arthritis can be detected at an early stage these include analyzing images. Though only 20% of patients who are suffering from the condition can be detected as having inflammatory arthritis when using radiographs, this number can increase to over 80% detection when magnetic resonance imaging is used. Over seven times the number of synovitis can be detected when using ultrasonography techniques as when using radiographs. The use of immunology and genetics also serves as a useful guide in the early detection of Arthritis.

Antibody association

There are many things that are associated with the disease, these include class II HLA and there is evidence for explicit autoantibiotics, anticyclic citrullinated peptides and a series of amino acids known as an epitope having a major impact on the disease. Indeed there is much evidence that these factors are associated with the strength of rheumatoid factor.

As these antibodies may be present years before arthritis can properly be detected they may prove very useful for immunological testing in the early stages of the development of the disease. As these antibodies are very specific in comparison to rheumatoid factor they are likely to aid in the easing of both short and long term suffering of arthritis patients.

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Today I am going to write about a recent paper that was published by Linda Li and colleague’s entitled “Effectiveness of the primary therapist model for rheumatoid arthritis rehabilitation”. In this study they investigated the outcome of treatment of people with rheumatoid arthritis by health care providers. The methods they compared were traditional treatments (such as occupational and physical therapy) with those carried out by a primary rheumatologic arthritis trained therapist. The latter method was first put forward by the Arthritis society of Canada and involves therapists acting as managers of a single patient, they are allowed to get advice from fellow therapists who act in a consultancy role, this means that the patient will not be constantly shipped off from one therapist to another. Linda Li and friends carried out an investigation of 111 patients who were undergoing either primary therapy (63 partakers) or more traditional arthritis treatments (48 partakers). The candidates were chosen so as not to have had any kind of treatment for rheumatism within the last two years, and they were analysed over a period of six months. It was found that in comparison to traditional methods, patients treated with the primary therapy methods suffered less pain overall than those who did not receive treatment. However both treatments methods resulted in a loss of pain from arthritis. So the adage is that any treatment for rheumatoid arthritis is better than none.

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There are over 200 different kinds of Arthritis that affect people of all ages and which act on many different parts of the body. Some of the more common kinds of the disease include Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis and Pauciarticular arthritis.
 Arthritis is not thought to be caused by one single gene and therefore if a member of your family is affected by it there is little evidence to think that you will too. It is estimated that between 0.6% and 1.1% of the population will suffer from the phenomenon, this percentage is much lower for people of a Chinese background, and is as high as 6% in indigenous Indians. It is thought by some people that arthritis is linked to the weather; however there is no scientific support for this notion.

This is one of the more common forms of the disease and is thought to affect around 1% of the population; it is much more prevalent in woman, and affects three times as many women as men. It typically starts to develop between the ages of thirty to fifty. The disease starts when the control of the bodies defence mechanisms fail, and it starts to attack healthy muscle tissue.
 The aim of this website is to keep people informed on all of the latest scientific research that is being carried out aiming to prevent arthritis and making it an esier disease to deal with. The Arthritis Chronicle hopes that the information available on the site will be a great resource for both sufferers and researchers.  

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