What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Rheumatoid arthritis is also known as autoimmune disease.
It can cause pain in the joints and it can affect throughout the body.
The damage in the joints which is caused due to rheumatoid arthritis usually happens on both sides of the body.
Therefore if any part of the joints is affected on legs and arms on one side then the other side of the legs and arms have a high chance of getting affected too.
Symptoms :
Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic disease.
A patient suffering from this disease shows symptoms like inflammation, and painful joints.
Rheumatoid symptoms can affect different organs of the body.
Some of the symptoms of joint pain of rheumatoid arthritis include :-
1. Pain in the joints.
2. Swelling around the joints
3. Stiffness around the joint affected area
These symptoms can vary from acute to mild and sometimes it becomes very severe.
Below given is the joint score index pain :-
The level of pain is rated from 0 to 3,
where 0 = none,
1 = mild,
2 = moderate,
3 = severe
Therefore it is recommended that not to ignore the symptoms even when the pain comes and goes.