- Rheumatologists treat arthritis
- Autoimmune diseases
- Pain disorders affecting joints
- Osteoporosis
There are more than 200 types of these diseases, including rheumatoid
arthritis,
osteoarthritis, gout, lupus, back pain, osteoporosis, and tendinitis
Degenerative arthropathies
Inflammatory arthropathies
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spondyloarthropathies
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Reactive arthritis (reactive arthropathy)
- Psoriatic arthropathy
- Enteropathic arthropathy
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
- Crystal arthropathies: gout, pseudogout
- Septic arthritis
Systemic conditions and connective tissue
diseases
- Lupus
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Sjögren's syndrome
- Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
- Polymyositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Mixed connective tissue disease
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Adult-onset Still's disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Vasculitis-
- Urticarial Vasculitis
- Microscopic polyangiitis
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Henoch–Schönlein purpura
- Serum sickness
- Giant cell arteritis, Temporal arteritis
- Takayasu's arteritis
- Behçet's disease
- Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
- Thromboangiitis obliterans
- Hereditary periodic fever syndromes
Soft tissue rheumatism
Local diseases and lesions affecting the joints and structures around
the joints including
tendons, ligaments capsules, bursae, stress fractures, muscles,
nerve entrapment, vascular
lesions, and ganglia. For example:
- Low back pain
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer's elbow
- Olecranon bursitis
- Planter fasciitis
Other Immunodeficiency Disorder