Get more information about treatment goals for inflammatory arthritis, which includes both pain management and the prevention of joint and organ damage. Learn how a physical therapist can help develop ...

Learn more about the connection between arthritis, depression and anxiety, and how these conditions can make your arthritis worse. Having any form of arthritis — osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid ...

The Arthritis Foundation is committed to making sure patients are involved in the processes and decisions that affect their health and quality of life, including clinical trials.

The Arthritis Foundation strives to accelerate translational and clinical research to develop new treatments and innovative solutions to ensure a better quality of life for both patients and their ...

Exercise is now considered an essential part of any arthritis treatment plan and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Arthritis Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ...

Restful sleep is important to almost every aspect of your health — including managing your pain and your arthritis. Yet pain from arthritis can make getting to sleep and staying asleep difficult.

Travis Salmon wasn’t the type to let a little ankle roll knock him out of the game. When he twisted his ankle playing basketball in high school and college, he did what was expected: He iced it, ...

Treating psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is tricky because this disease affects both the skin and joints. PsA treatment includes a combination of medication and non-drug therapies like exercise, massage, ...

Find out if osteoarthritis physical therapy is right for you. With the right help, you can exercise your sore joints and improve mobility. Although getting up and moving may be the last thing you feel ...

People with arthritis have long felt that certain foods reduced their joint pain and inflammation. Now researchers are discovering more about the foods and spices that play a role in relieving ...

Sometimes gout can be diagnosed based only on symptoms: intense, painful swelling in a single joint — often in the big toe — that subsides, only to show up again in the same or a different joint. In ...

Juvenile arthritis (JA) is a term used to refer to various rheumatic diseases in children. What they have in common are that they all cause joint pain, swelling and stiffness, but they affect ...