Arthritis Types of

Arthritis is very common, painful condition, can make working and even basic living extremely difficult. These diseases can affect your ligaments muscles tendons and bones causing stiffness, swelling and massive pain.

There are main two most common types of arthritis,

(1) Rheumatoid arthritis

(2) Osteoarthritis

Both are very different in character; require completely different methods of diagnosis, different methods of treatment.

As described above both, I am talking about Osteoarthritis arthritis, then at very first want to say that, many older people have this to some degree. Main cause of this type of arthritis is, when the cartilage that cushions the ends of the bones - where the joints are - starts to wear down. As more the cartilage wears down, the more pain and swelling you will have in that joint.

But, when your cells are actually attacking numerous joints, as well as soft tissues, is called Rheumatoid Arthritis which is autoimmune disease. This disease also known as Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis for Younger aged people.

Other Kinds of Arthritis are,

Gouty Arthritis, Lupus Arthritis, Pseudogout Arthritis, Infectious Arthritis, Hemorrhagic Arthritis

Gouty arthritis is a problem of joint and bones, with common site of the attack is toe but other joints can be affected are ankles, wrists, fingers, elbow and knee. Acute gout attack usually in one joint at a time and pain take time in hour to day. The patients can develop fever together with gout.

As like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus Arthritis is also autoimmune disease, actually just a side effect of Lupus, can affect at the wrists, knees, and hands.

Pseudogout Arthritis, caused by an accumulation of calcium in the joints, similar to Gout, knee joint might be affected by it.

Infectious Arthritis, also known as Septic or Bacterial Arthritis, can be very serious, caused by an infection in the joint and the joint becomes inflamed, may require surgery to have the infection completely removed from the joint as well.

Hemorrhagic Arthritis caused by bleeding in the joint, blood essentially accumulates, causing pain and swelling.