What are most common diseases of the joint and muscles?
Joint Disease Types
- Osteoarthritis. The most common type, osteoarthritis is the “wear-and-tear” form that increases with age.
- Rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition affect the lining of the joints.
- Spondyloarthritis.
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- Lupus.
- Gout.
- Bursitis.
What illness causes muscle and joint pain?
Acute pain in multiple joints is most often due to inflammation, gout, or the beginning or flare up of a chronic joint disorder. Chronic pain in multiple joints is usually due to osteoarthritis or an inflammatory disorder (such as rheumatoid arthritis) or, in children, juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
What are some common diseases of the muscular system?
6.6: Disorders of the Muscular System
- Pain in the Neck.
- Musculoskeletal Disorders. Muscle Strain. Tendinitis. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
- Neuromuscular Disorders. Muscular Dystrophy. Myasthenia Gravis. Parkinson’s Disease. Feature: Human Biology in the News.
What are some diseases that affect the muscular system?
Types of neuromuscular disorders include:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Muscular dystrophy.
- Myasthenia gravis.
- Myopathy.
- Myositis, including polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
- Peripheral neuropathy.
What is degenerative bone disease?
Degenerative joint and bone disease, or osteoarthritis, is a chronic process of wear and tear on the joint that progresses with time. It’s also the most common form of arthritis, which affects about 27 million Americans.
What diseases affect the joints?
Because of their location and constant use, joints are prone to stress, injury, and inflammation. The main diseases affecting the joints are rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and gout. Injuries comprise contusions, sprains, dislocations, and penetrating wounds.
What are some bone diseases?
Metabolic bone disease , any of several diseases that cause various abnormalities or deformities of bone. Examples of metabolic bone diseases include osteoporosis, rickets, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, marble bone disease (osteopetrosis), Paget disease of bone, and fibrous dysplasia.
What disease attacks joints?
There are many different autoimmune diseases, and many of them may have autoimmune arthritis as a symptom. Some examples of autoimmune diseases that may attack the joints include: rheumatoid arthritis.
What are diseases in the skeletal system?
Other common conditions that affect the skeletal system include: Osteoporosis: This is a disease in which the bones become fragile and prone to fracture. Leukemia: This is a cancer of the white blood cells. Osteopenia, osteitis deformans, and osteomalacia: Similar to osteoporosis, these are other types of bone loss.