What are rheumatic diseases? Rheumatic diseases refers to various painful medical conditions which affect joints, bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and muscles.In many cases they can also affect the internal organs like kidneys , nerves , heart , brain , blood vessels as well as blood itself. Most of these diseases affects more than one organ of the body. What is the difference between arthritis and rheumatic diseases? Arthritis is not a disease by itself but it is one of the symptoms of rheu...

All of us whether young or old have pain in our joints at some point in our life . That pain may be just temporary lasting for a few days or may last months to years. E.g suppose you fell down and hurt your knees , you have knee pain and maybe some swelling also which subsides in few days. A young man working in IT sector has to spend long time in the office sitting and has low back pain. A 50 year old man has neck pain and the doctor has told him to have cervical spondylosis. My grandmother has...