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Rheumatism is referred to a chronic autoimmune disease which involves inflammation in the connective tissues, joints, or muscles that is accompanied with pain. Rheumatism can also affect internal hub organs like kidneys, lungs, heart and skin. Rheumatism is a vast term and contains more than 100 different conditions under its umbrella.
This term is more common in historic medical texts as in the current medical texts, it is not used frequently. Symptoms of rheumatism would depend largely on the underlying disorder; however common symptoms include severe joint pain, fever, muscle pain, swelling and redness in the joints, stiffness in the muscles, heart symptoms, lung symptoms, and eye symptoms. Common rheumatic disease include fibromyalgia, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus, polymyositis, scleroderma, dermatomyositis, tendintis, bursitis, polymyalgia rheumatica, vasculitis, complex regional pain syndrome, carpel tunnel syndrome and arthritis. Many people associate arthritis to represent rheumatism; however arthritis is only a part of rheumatic disease.
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