What is rheumatoid arthritis and is it caused by any factor? Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease. In fact, it is the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease there is. It affects approximately 0.5% of the world’s population and is therefore considered a common disease. The cause of this disease is not known, the … Read more
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic, chronic, autoimmune, inflammatory disease. It is characterized by polyarticular and symmetrical inflammation of small and large joints, with possible systemic involvement at any time during its evolution. Rheumatology specialists state that this pathology affects 0.5-1% of the Spanish population. Like most autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis occurs more frequently in … Read more
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease, belonging to the group of autoimmune diseases, which predominantly affects the joints, although it can damage other organs such as the lung, eyes or secretory glands. Its origin is completely unknown, although it is increasingly certain that it requires a combination of a genetic predisposition with external triggers … Read more
Lupus is one of the main autoimmune diseases. These diseases occur when the body’s defense system (the immune system) gets “confused” and does not differentiate between harmful particles (viruses, bacteria and other foreign substances called antigens) and its own cells or tissues, and produces antibodies against “itself”. These antibodies are called “autoantibodies” and are responsible … Read more
Lupus, better known as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (hereafter SLE), is an autoimmune disease, i.e. it is characterized among other things by the presence of auto-antibodies (antibodies directed against proteins of our own organism). It affects all races, although the black race suffers most severely from SLE. The disease has a clear predilection for the female … Read more
What is lupus and what causes it? Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease. We call autoimmune diseases those in which the body’s defense mechanisms designed to defend us from external aggressions, for reasons not well known, begin to target and attack the body itself. In the case of systemic lupus erythematosus we know that … Read more
Fibromyalgia presents a constellation of heterogeneous symptoms with diffuse chronic pain as a common denominator. Its prevalence is about 3%, with a 20:1 ratio in favor of women. The symptomatology is functional pain, asthenia and sleep disturbance. However, the clinical picture is very heterogeneous: Functional pain: of continuous type even nocturnal, aggravated by exercise. Global … Read more
Fibromyalgia is a chronic rheumatic disease that, according to the Spanish Society of Rheumatology, affects just over 2% of the population over 20 years of age, mostly women. Sufferers often complain that everything hurts, since it involves constant pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, persistent fatigue, sleep disturbances, anxiety and depression as the main symptoms. … Read more
What diseases do rheumatologists treat? For many years rheumatology has been a specialty practically unknown to the population, who did not know very well what diseases we rheumatologists dealt with. Today the majority of the population knows that we deal with bone diseases, especially osteoporosis, joint diseases, arthritis as long as there is no traumatic … Read more
Central Sensitization Syndrome (CSS) encompasses a series of diseases that have a common denominator: the lowering of the sensory threshold and, therefore, the alteration in the perception of stimuli. Among them we can include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, tension or migraine headaches, temporomandibular joint disorders, restless legs syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome… Epidemiological studies point to a … Read more