Rheumatism

Rheumatism is a disease that attacks the joints and surrounding structures. Rheumatism can attack the head to toe. Common rheumatic arthritis is also called by the name of this disease is generally characterized by a number of symptoms, such as swelling, redness, pain in the knee, elbow, wrist or at the other joints, disorders of the muscles and tendons. rheumatic symptoms are quite broad.

Rheumatism consists of 150 species. But there are four types of arthritis are most common in our society that is osteoarthritis which is caused by calcification, rheumatic arthritis that attacks the outer outside cartilage tissue, rheumatic inflammation, and arthritis caused by thinning.

About 50 percent of complaints joint pain caused by calcification. Significant depletion of tissue calcification of cartilage that serves as a cushion joints, '
Worn bearings in the joints that causes friction, causing bone pain. Calcification is a process of degeneration that began at the age of 40 years. The speed of the process of degeneration is different in each person.

Joints someone could start trouble at the age of 40. But there are people who until the age of the '70s joint fine. How quickly this process is determined by several risk factors, "including: The quality of cartilage and overweight. Good cartilage will be more resistant to wear condition. Like a car tire if the quality is good, then the joints are not easily wear out even if worn for long. The incidence rate increases with age.

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