Inflammatory Arthritis: the Facts

Inflammatory arthritis is one of the common types of arthritis and is considered an autoimmune disease. The reason for this is because it damages the tissue in the immune system and causes swelling in the joints that can cause degeneration and deformity of the joint.
This is a type of arthritis that can cause severe pain in the muscles and the person with inflammatory arthritis is at risk for infection in the joints. There can be stiffness like with other types of arthritis, however they can cause a decrease in mobility.
Several types of arthritis are in the class of inflammatory arthritis, and they include:

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Lupus
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Reiter’s syndrome