Is there a difference between Rhumatism and Arthritis?

Answer 1

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the bodies own immune system attacks joints and at times other organs.

Osteoarthritis is a condition where tissue between the joints is worn out leading to the bones touching when they should not.

Answer 2

arthrosis is a joint, an area where two bones are attached for the purpose of motion of body parts. An arthrosis (joint) is usually formed of fibrous connective tissue and cartilage.

Arthritis is a disease of the joints an sometimes other tissue, there are over a hundred different forms of Arthritis.

Answer 3

Arthritis is a general term for an inflammatory or degenerative disease of the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is specifically an autoimmune disease, whereby the immune system attacks the cartilage of the joints. Yet another type is Osteoarthitiswhich is a degenerative joint disease, where the articular cartilage of the joints is lost.

Answer 4

There really is no difference they both relate to conditions that in the main cause pain destruction and deformity in the joints of the body. For example rheumatoid arthritis is a Autoimmune disease that causes inflammation leading to joint destruction and deformity as well as damage to many other tissues of the body. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that is more the result of wear and tear accidental joint damage and broken bones. however they are both reffed to as rheumatism. If you insisted on there being a difference you could separate osteoarthritis being a noninflammatory disease as arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis being a autoimmune disease as rheumatism.

Answer 5

Arthritis is any one of over a hundred different forms of disease that affect the joints of the body with pain damage stiffens deformity and other problems. Rheumatiod arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the immune system of the body attacks cartilage in joints leading to their destruction and in the process the destruction of tissue and bone in the surrounding area. it can also have destructive painful deforming and debilitating effects on many other parts and organs of the body.

Answer 6

Arthritis is a general term to describe joint paint and inflammation. There are approximately 100 different types of arthritis, many of which have different causes and treatments.

When many people hear the word "arthritis," they think of the wear-and-tear type associated with aging. This is osteoarthritis. In actuality, there are many different kinds of arthritis that can affect people of all ages. Gout is one example of a type of arthritis that can affect people of all ages, while juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, as you might guess from the name, primarily affects children under the age of 18.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease,with the most common symptom being joint inflammation and pain--although the inflammation can also affect other parts of the body, including the kidneys, lungs and heart. Rheumatoid arthritis can be diagnosed in people of any age, but the most common group of people to be first diagnosed are young women in their late teens or early 20s.

Most forms of arthritis are not curable, but researchers have learned much about treating the symptoms in order to slow the progression of the disease and make patients more comfortable.

Answer 7

1:is aches and pains in muscles

2 it concerns joints and bones

Answer 8

Rheumatism is generaly the name given to aches and pains that are muscular. while arthritis covers joints and bones. historicaly the two have mixed up over 200 different painfull conditions.

Answer 9

There is none Rheumatic arthritis is an incorrect term.