Types of Arthritis

What are the types of arthritis? Ah, the timeless question that haunts us all! Well, arthritis can affect any part of your body, especially your joints, ligaments, tendons and surrounding tissues. In rare cases, these can extend to your kidneys, heart and lungs. However, when caught early, all of these arthritic conditions and disorders can be treated and the symptoms either reduced or prevented. In many cases, the symptoms can be easily managed with therapies, drugs and lifestyle type changes. Unfortunately, there is no cure for any of them as of yet and constant research is being done to one day bring about a cure. But until that time, arthritis is something that can affect anyone, anywhere and at any time for no known reasons, except for exceptional circumstances where traumas occurred, infections are present or other diseases contribute to the onset of them.

The following are the many types of arthritis that you might or might not get:

• Achilles tendinitis

• Epicondylitis

• Polymyositis

• Acromegalic arthropathy

• Neuropathic arthropathy

• Hemarthrosis

• Polymyalgia rheumatic

• Erosive inflammatory osteoarthritis

• Posterior tibial tendinitis

• Adult onset Still’s disease

• Nodular panniculitis

• Granulomatous arteritis

• Anserine bursitis

• Pott’s disease

• Achondroplasia

• Prepatellar bursitis

• Henoch-Schonlein purpura

• Popliteal cysts

• Hepatitis B surface antigen disease

• Adhesive capsulitis

• Hemochromatosis

• Ankylosing spondylitis

• Pseudoxanthoma

• Avascular necrosis

• Pseudoxanthoma elasticum

• Behcet’s syndrome

• Prosthetic joint infection

• Bicipital tendinitis

• Blount’s disease

• Hip dysplasia

• Psoriatic arthritis

• Hurler syndrome

• Raynaud’s phenomenon

• Hypermobility syndrome

• Brucellar spondylitis

• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome

• Hypersensitivity vasculitis

• Bursitis

• Immune complex disease

• Reactive arthritis

• Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy

• Reiter’s syndrome

• Calcaneal bursitis

• Relapsing polychondritis

• Impingement syndrome

• Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD)

• Retrocalcaneal bursitis

• Crystal deposition disease

• Rheumatic fever

• Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Jaccoud’s arthropathy

• Caplan’s syndrome

• Rheumatoid vasculitis

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Juvenile dermatomyositis

• Rotator cuff tendinitis

• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

• Chondrocalcinosis

• Sacroiliitis

• Kawasaki disease

• Chondromalacia patellae

• Salmonella osteomyelitis

• Kienbock’s disease

• Sarcoidosis

• Chronic synovitis

• Legg-Calve-Perthes disease

• Saturnine gout

• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

• Scheuermann’s osteochondritis

• Linear scleroderma

• Scleroderma

• Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis

• Septic arthritis

• Churg-Strauss syndrome

• Seronegative arthritis

• Cogan’s syndrome

• Shigella arthritis

• Lipoid dermatoarthritis

• Shoulder-hand syndrome

• Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis

• Sickle cell arthropathy

• Lofgren’s syndrome

• Sjogren’s syndrome

• Costosternal syndrome

• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

• Lyme disease

• Spinal stenosis

• CREST syndrome

• Spondylolysis

• Malignant synovioma

• Staphylococcus arthritis

• Cryoglobulinemia

• Stickler syndrome

• Degenerative joint disease

• Subacute cutaneous lupus

• Marfan’s syndrome

• Sweet’s syndrome

• Dermatomyositis

• Sydenham’s chorea

• Medial plica syndrome

• Syphilitic arthritis

• Diabetic finger sclerosis

• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

• Metastatic carcinomatous arthritis

• Takayasu’s arthritis

• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)

• Tarsal tunnel syndrome

• Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)

• Tennis elbow

• Discitis

• Tietse’s syndrome

• Mixed cryoglobulinemia

• Transient osteoporosis

• Discoid lupus erythematosus

• Traumatic arthritis

• Mucopolysaccharidosis

• Trochanteric bursitis

• Drug-induced lupus

• Tuberculosis arthritis

• Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis

• Arthritis of Ulcerative colitis

• Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy

• Undifferentiated connective tissue syndrome (UCTS)

• Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia

• Urticarial vasculitis

• Dupuytren’s contracture

• Viral arthritis

• Mycoplasmal arthritis

• Wegener’s granulomatosis

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

• Whipple’s disease

• Myofascial pain syndrome

• Wilson’s disease

• Enteropathic arthritis

• Yersinial arthritis

• Neonatal lupus

• Fabry’s disease

• Ochronosis

• Familial Mediterranean fever

• Olecranon bursitis

• Farber’s lipogranulomatosis

• Osgood-Schlatter’s disease

• Felty’s syndrome

• Osteoarthritis

• Fibromyalgia

• Osteochondromatosis

• Fifth’s disease

• Osteogenesis imperfecta

• Flat feet

• Osteomalacia

• Foreign body synovitis

• Osteomyelitis

• Freiberg’s disease

• Osteonecrosis

• Fungal arthritis

• Osteoporosis

• Gaucher’s disease

• Overlap syndrome

• Giant cell arteritis

• Pachydermoperiostosis Paget’s disease of bone

• Gonococcal arthritis

• Palindromic rheumatism

• Goodpasture’s syndrome

• Patellofemoral pain syndrome

• Gout

• Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome

• Polyarteritis nodos

• Plantar fasciitis

• Piriformis syndrome

• Pigmented villonodular synovitis

As you can see, the types of arthritis are numerous and not everyone will ever get these. So, if you suspect that you may be suffering symptoms of arthritis, basic sore, stiff, painful and swollen joints, go see your doctor for a proper diagnosis.