Rheumatology is a branch of medicine Ardent to the diagnosis and rheumatic diseases.

Rheumatologists deals with immunological or immune mediated disorders of the musculoskeletal system, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitides, and heritable connective tissue disorders.

These diseases are also known to be disorders of the immune system. Rheumatology is considered as the study and practice of medical immunology.

Degenerative arthropathies

Osteoarthritis

Inflammatory arthropathies

Rheumatoid arthritis

Spondyloarthropathies

• • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Reactive arthritis (reactive arthropathy)
  • Psoriatic arthropathy
  • Enteropathic arthropathy

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

Crystal arthropathies: gout, pseudogout

Septic arthritis

Systemic conditions and connective tissue diseases

Medical laser for the treatment of rheumatism.

Lupus

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

Sjögren’s syndrome

Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)

Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)

Dermatomyositis

Polymyalgia rheumatica

Mixed connective tissue disease

Relapsing polychondritis

Adult-onset Still’s disease

Sarcoidosis

Fibromyalgia

Myofascial pain syndrome

Vasculitis

• • Microscopic polyangiitis
  • Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis)
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Henoch–Schönlein purpura
  • Serum sickness
  • Giant cell arteritis, Temporal arteritis
  • Takayasu’s arteritis
  • Behçet’s syndrome
  • Kawasaki’s disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
  • Buerger’s disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
  • Hereditary periodic fever syndromes

Soft tissue rheumatism

This is local diseases and affects the Structure of joints and whole joints which includes tendons, ligaments capsules, stress fractures, muscles, nerve entrapment, vascular lesions, and ganglia. For example:

Low back pain

Tennis elbow

Golfer’s elbow

Olecranon bursitis