Physiotherapy For Rheumatoid Arthritis

Physiotherapy can be of great help in reducing and alleviating pains from Rheumatoid Arthritis. It is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart and blood vessels.

Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disorder and it occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body’s tissues. However, with quick intervention from experienced physiotherapist, pains can be managed.

Unlike the wear-and-tear damage of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis affects the lining of your joints, causing a painful swelling that can eventually result in bone erosion and joint deformity.

Physiotherapy sessions which include cold and heat therapy, electrothearapy, range of exercises including aerobics and strenghtening exercises can combat pains.

Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. Normally, your immune system helps protect your body from infection and disease. In rheumatoid arthritis, your immune system attacks healthy tissue in your joints. It can also cause medical problems with your heart, lungs, nerves, eyes and skin.

Symptoms Rheumatoid Arthritis

Signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis may include:

• Tender, warm, swollen joints

• Joint stiffness that is usually worse in the mornings and after inactivity

• Fatigue, fever and loss of appetite

Rheumatoid arthritis signs and symptoms may vary in severity and may even come and go. Periods of increased disease activity, called flares, alternate with periods of relative remission — when the swelling and pain fade or disappear. Over time, rheumatoid arthritis can cause joints to deform and shift out of place.

Early rheumatoid arthritis tends to affect your smaller joints first — particularly the joints that attach your fingers to your hands and your toes to your feet.

As the disease progresses, symptoms often spread to the wrists, knees, ankles, elbows, hips and shoulders. In most cases, symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of your body.

About 40% of people who have rheumatoid arthritis also experience signs and symptoms that don’t involve the joints. Areas that may be affected include: Skin, Eyes, Lungs,Heart, Kidneys, Salivary glands, Nerve tissue, Bone marrow, Blood vessels.

If you need the services of good Physiotherapists that can attend to you in order to alleviate the pains of Rheumatoid Arthritis Plks Contact Us at Effective Physiotherapy & Fitness Clinic, Kado Estate, Abuja.

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