Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Unwelcoming Disease

Rheumatoid arthritis is an unwelcoming disease where millions of people are diagnosed with it per year and is a painful process if you have a severe case of it. Symptoms vary for every individual's body joint, but the cause of it still remains unknown although research within a few years we will be able to pinpoint the cause, but for now we will rely on the information presented to us. There are a couple of therapies used to cope with Rheumatoid arthritis and seem to be beneficial to reduce pain. You can’t stop RA, but there are such treatments to delay the progression of this disease. The CNA is a great help in helping a patient live with this disease so they are very important to the environment of a person diagnosed with RA in aspects such …show more content…
The most common one is joint injection. Joint injection is taken with a cold spray or anesthesia. It carries medication to reduce pain and also helps the physician diagnose the cause of the swelling joint. The way it is done is first the skin has to be cleaned, then a needle is inserted through the skin which the needle is attached to a syringe. Here the fluid in the joints can be obtained and tested through laboratory tests or medication can be inserted. There are risks of infection and bleeding, but even then this is very rare. Joint replacement Surgery is another type of treatment where the surgeon or orthopaedic will replace the whole joint or at times will replace or fix the damaged parts. Drugs are also used to help treat RA. DMARDs are commonly used, but are very expensive and if side effects are present they are usually …show more content…
There are some people who show it for a short period of time, then there are others to whom it comes and goes, then there is the severe case who will have it for a lifetime. If we focus on the severe case of Rheumatoid arthritis, it typically starts with a healthy joint, then the White blood cells will start to attack its own tissues. In this case it will intrude the synovium causing it to swell on account of synovium increasing. As progress continues, synovial cells continue to strike and destroy the cartilage and bones within the joint ,and eventually the muscles, ligaments and tendons will not provide support in that area. This result in pain, loss of function and deformities. To check the progress or severity of rheumatoid arthritis your doctor will perform an x-ray to see the damage of the joints. Another technique used to detect the advancement of the disease is to do a blood test, the higher the levels of rheumatoid factors that show up, the advanced the disease