Vocabulary
A disease that causes pain, swelling, and stiffness in joints.
What is Arthritis?
A flexible, connectible tissue in the joints.
What is cartilage?
Pain in the areas of the body that can move back and forth.
What is joint pain?
A non-medicine pain relief technique that uses needles.
What is Acupuncture?
The most common type of Arthritis.
What is Osteoarthritis?
Degenerative joint disease.
What is Osteoarthritis?
Ethnic background that has a higher chance of developing JIA.
What is European?
A symptom which makes it harder to move one's joints.
What is stiffness?
A common treatment for JIA. Some types of this are illegal.
What are steroids?
The number of types of Arthritis.
What is 200?
A type of arthritis that commonly affects the wrists and knuckles, but can spread throughout the body.
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
These can increase one's chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis tenfold, depending on them.
What are genes?
A factor that can worsen Arthritis pain.
What is the weather?
Anti-inflammatory pain medications.
What are NSAIDs?
The gender most likely to get Rheumatoid Arthritis, at a ratio of 3:1.
What is female?
Also called JIA, this type of Arthritis affects younger people.
What is Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?
The causes of Osteoarthritis.
What is normal wear and tear?
A symptom that could relate to Arthritis that could give one chills.
What is fever?
Though too much can be bad, moderate amounts help prevent heart disease and Arthritis.
What is alcohol?
Ratio of children with JIA to those without.
What is 1:250?
A rarer type of Arthritis that causes painful swelling during attacks, but feels fine between attacks.
What is Gout Arthritis?
A type of disease that includes Rheumatoid Arthritis.
What is autoimmunity?
Small lumps of tissue that appear in 25% of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients.
What are rheumatoid nodules?
The best type of exercise program to help prevent Arthritis.
What is aerobic?
The ratio of adults with Arthritis to those without.
What is 1:5?