Rheumatism there rheumatic diseases

August 23, 2010 · Posted in Diseases 

rheumatic diseasesPhrases like “I have rheumatism,” mine is rheumatism, “” my mother’s rheumatism are common in the population, including in this term musculoskeletal ailments, but is a misnomer, because it would mean to say ” I have digestive “or” I urology. There are over two hundred and related diseases Locomotive with involvement of muscles, tendons, bone quality, joints, immune system, and so on.

If I have a “rheumatic disease, should I go to a rheumatologist or orthopedist?. A rheumatologist by training and experience, is the specialist better equipped to diagnose and treat medical conditions of the musculoskeletal system and autoimmune diseases.

The orthopedist is musculoskeletal surgeon, in the same way as the digestive specialist diagnosed with a gallstone and digestive surgeon will operate. In addition, specialists in trauma, treat fractures, sprains and other traumatic injuries.

Present and future of disease and rheumatologic patients. The current status of rheumatic patients was unthinkable 10 years ago. The introduction of new biological therapeutics, has allowed patients who could hardly move, develop an almost normal activity, not just labor, but social.

It will be difficult to meet with the deformities that were reached in previous decades. The emergence of new “targets” and introducing therapeutic pharmacogenetic studies, will allow in a few years that we have “a la carte treatments, so that each patient be given the best treatment for their properties, avoiding costs unnecessary and troublesome side effects and sometimes important.

In rheumatology we are in a spectacular moment that allows our patients a great present in most cases and a very bright future.

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