The rheumatism is a term used for non-specialist medical disorders that may affect the heart, bones, joints, kidneys and lungs. Rheumatism, in severe cases, can cause serious problems to the movement slowing them. The drugs most commonly used to treat rheumatism are NSAIDs.
The study of rheumatic disorders and therapeutic interventions is called rheumatology.
The term "rheumatism" is still used in colloquial speech, but it is more frequently used in the medical-technical, it would be fair to say that there are no more such disorders to be known simply as "rheumatism." Some countries use the term to refer to the syndrome of fibromyalgia. The traditional term, in fact, it covers such a range of different ailments that speak of "rheumatism" does not specify much. However, in dealing with rheumatism tend to identify arthritis. However, to speak of "non-articular rheumatism", also known as regional pain syndrome or soft tissue rheumatism, may be misleading in meaning. In addition, arthritis and rheumatism cover alone over 200 different ailments.
The term is used in rheumatic disease MeSH to refer to connective tissue disorders.
It is theorized that the palindromic rheumatism is a form of rheumatoid arthritis.
I recognized most common rheumatic disorders include:
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Dorsopatia
Bursitis / tendonitis, shoulder pain, wrist, biceps, leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles tendon.
Capsulitis
Fibromyalgia
Cervical
Osteoarthritis
Psoriatic arthritis
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatic heart disease (a complication of rheumatic fever)
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
Tenosynovitis
Despite these disturbii we probably have little in common in terms of epidemiology, they share two characteristics: they cause chronic pain (though often intermittent), and are difficult to treat. Also in the complex are very common.
A large number of herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism". Modern medicine, both conventional and alternative, recognizes that the different rheumatic disorders have different causes (and many of them have multiple causes) and therefore require different treatments.
Nevertheless, the initial treatment of most rheumatic diseases is the prescription of analgesics, such as acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and diclofenac. Often, the most potent analgesics are necessary.
For a long time it has been said that there is a connection between pain "rheumatic" and climate. It seems that there is no evidence for or against this thesis, but a 1995 questionnaire that was distributed to 557 people by A. Naser and other collaborators within the Pain Management Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital concluded that "changes in barometric pressure are the main link between weather and pain. Low pressure is generally associated with cold, wet weather and an increase in pain. On the contrary the drought conditions denote an increase in pressure and a consequent decrease in the pain
