Arthritis is the most commonly found condition that affects the people growing with age and people who follow stress filled activities throughout their life.

There are different types of arthritis that cause pain and a lot of discomfort to the people suffering those conditions. Psoriatic arthritis, gout, septic arthritis, scleroderma, osteoarthritis, gonococcal arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis are the types of arthritis that have a severe effect on the joints of the body. A joint is a place where two bones in the body come together.

People suffering from Arthritis face joint inflammation that can occur in one or many joints in body parts. The major arthritis types are Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis that differ with some factors.

1. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that is caused by the wearing and tears out of body joints over a period of time. Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that occurs when a person’s immune system attacks the body’s joints.
2. Osteoarthritis is affected at older age. Rheumatoid Arthritis is a condition that can affect a person at any stage of life time. It has even chance to occur in children, which is called as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis happens very quickly whereas Osteoarthritis occurs gradually with growing age.
4. Rheumatoid Arthritis grows in symmetrical manner, where a person can experience joint inflammation and pain in both hands and feet. Osteoarthritis can easily affect only one joint in the body.
5. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis, both cause stiffness in the morning. But commonly in Osteoarthritis, morning stiffness can lessen as the day goes on and in Rheumatoid Arthritis, the stiffness is throughout the day.
6. Rheumatoid arthritis has other symptoms like tiredness and malaise where as Osteoarthritis has pain specific to that joint area where it is affected.

Any kind of Arthritis is very painful and causes discomfort to the patient, it needs a thorough examination of a good orthopaedic doctor who can prevent any further damage to the joint of the body and can give treatment to relieve the patient from pain and discomfort.

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