Diseases of joints are among the diseases that significantly worsen the quality of life of people, and this affliction affects and affects mankind at all stages of its development. Archaeologists have repeatedly found the remains of ancient people with traces of joint damage.

Diseases of the joints, caused by inflammatory processes of various etiologies, are called arthritis. Arthrosis refers to all other joint diseases. Both the first and the second have an acute and chronic form.

Most arthritis belong to the group of autoimmune diseases, that is, the immune system, instead of recognizing and destroying foreign structures, destroys its own tissues. If one joint is affected - it is a monoarthritis, if there is multiple joint damage - about polyarthritis.

The causes that lead to a malfunction in the immune system are not known, but most often there is a connection with infection, metabolic disorders, traumas, avitaminosis. Why do some people with equal conditions or injuries develop arthritis or arthrosis, and in others - does not develop, it is unknown.

Doctors-rheumatologists solve therapeutic problems in connection with arthritis and arthrosis. Surgical intervention is performed by orthopedists-traumatologists.

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