- Condition Ankylosing Spondylitis AS, radiographic axial spondyloarthritis Ankylosing spondylitis is long-term inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac joints, with damage visible on X-ray. It causes back pain and stiffness that improve wit…
- Question Is ankylosing spondylitis a disability? It varies widely. Many patients treated early continue in full-time work with little limitation. Advanced disease with significant spinal fusion can limit movement subst…
- Question Is this a milder disease than ankylosing spondylitis? Not in terms of symptoms. Pain, stiffness and fatigue are comparable. The difference is that structural damage has not yet appeared on X-ray, which makes it the better t…
- Condition Axial Spondyloarthritis axSpA …f the spine and sacroiliac joints. It covers both ankylosing spondylitis, where damage is visible on X-ray, and the non-radiographic form, where it is not. What unites…
- Condition Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis nr-axSpA …thritis causes the same inflammatory back pain as ankylosing spondylitis, but the sacroiliac joints still look normal on X-ray. Inflammation is visible on MRI instead…
- Question Is arthritis hereditary? …st children of affected parents never develop it. Ankylosing spondylitis has a stronger genetic link through HLA-B27, though most B27-positive people never develop the…
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