Arthritis comes from the Greek / Greek: Arthon (joint) and itis (inflammation), in general, arthritis is a medical term for a disease or a disorder resulting in swelling / inflammation or damage to the joints. Arthritis is an inflammatory disease in a group of degenerative disease with a very diverse forms, there are approximately 100 types of arthritis.
Arthritis Patients will typically experience pain, aches and stiff joints, which can complicate them in performing daily activities. Even in some types of arthritis is not only attacking the joints but also attacks other organs such as muscle and skin.
Out of 100 more species present, Arthritis can be classified into several major groups namely:
1. Osteoarthritis
2. Inflammatory arthritis - Rheumatoid Arthritis - Ankylosing Spondylitis - Juvenile Arthritis - polymyalgia rheumatica - psoriatic arthritis - Reactive arthritis - Seronegative Arthritis
3. Infectious Arthritis - Lyme Disease
4. Other rheumatic disease - Gout
5. Other conditions like Arthritis: bursitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Tendinitis
According to research by experts, there are three factors cause a person suffering from arthritis are:
Heredity: For this type of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, heredity factor greater role as a cause, a person with a family history had ever suffered from arthritis types are based on the statistic has a greater chance of exposure than those who do not.
Biological factors: A combination of several biological factors including age, gender, hormones, body weight, activity in daily activities and genetic profiles that produce specific characteristics in the body that cause a person to become susceptible to arthritis?
Environmental Factors: The environment here is the environment in a medical sense that the point is that anything that comes from outside the body, such as: diet, never had an accident earlier in the joints, have experienced a particular infection, the type of work ever done, daily activities etc. where each of these factors can influence the possibility someone may have arthritis.
Activities such as typing, using a telephone call with the clamping side of the head, sat long in the same position and various other activities that may risk causing Muscle Strain / strained muscle, If this happens frequently, it can also be a cause of arthritis.
