Once a person has a systemic disease, he/she can expect that if left untreated, it will spread all throughout the body causing more devastating effects and other major body injuries and deformities.
Ankylosing Spondylitis may exhibit symptoms and signs like those of reactive or psoriatic arthritis. The fact is, this disease is usually being linked to arthritides like ulcerative colitis and other forms of arthritis, thus, it is often called medically as spondyloarthropathies. This medical term denotes that symptoms of arthritis are being found together with more serious body conditions like spine inflammation which is really a threat to one's health.
Misdiagnosis of this disease may lead to some serious body injuries or even disability. But the truth is, it is more likely to be discovered when it is in its more advanced stages and the spinal inflammation may result to ankylosis or a fusion of the vertebrae inside the body.
The bone fusion may stop the pain that the patient is feeling but it means that he can also be a total disabled. The combined bones may also become brittle and fragile that a little impact would cause breakage and hemorrhage inside. After the fusion, that's the stage that the patient should be taken care of extremely and that medications should also be maintained. |