Rheumatism
Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder is a general term for medical problems that can hurt the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lungs. The study of these problems is called rheumatology.
| Rheumatism | |
|---|---|
| Classification and external resources | |
| ICD-10 | M79.0 |
| ICD-9 | 729.0 |
| MeSH | D012216 |
Types
The major rheumatic disorders that are known, some are:
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Back pain
- Bursitis/ Tendinitis, Shoulder pain, wrist, biceps, leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles
- Capsulitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Neck pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatic heart disease (a long-term complication of Rheumatic fever)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporal arteritis and Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Tenosynovitis.
Treatment
Many traditional herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism". Modern medicine, both conventional and complementary, shows that the different rheumatic disorders have different causes (and several of them have more than one) and need different kinds of treatment.