Spotting Axial Spondyloarthritis in Chiropractic Settings:
Is AxSpA Behind your Patient’s Back Pain?
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Spotting Axial Spondyloarthritis in Chiropractic Settings:
Is AxSpA Behind your Patient’s Back Pain?
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Stiffness or, more often, fusion of a joint.
Ankylosing Spondylitis a.k.a Radiographic sacroilitis(r-axSpA)
Axial Spondyloarthritis - formerly called AS. Classified into two categories: r-axSpA and nr-axSpA
Inflammation of a digit (either finger or toe). The affected fingers and toes swell up into a sausage shape and can become painful.
Inflammation of the entheses, the sites where tendons or ligaments insert into the bone.
Inflammatory bowel disease associated Arthritis
Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis - no definitive sacroiliitis changes seen on X ray of sacroiliac joint
Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs - first line of treatment for axSpA
Psoriatic arthritis
Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis - definitive sacroilits changes seen on X ray of sacroilic joint
Reactive Arthritis
Inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
Spondyloarthritis - an umbrella term that includes axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis
Calcifications or heterotopic ossifications inside a spinal ligament or of the annulus fibrosus seen in only a limited number of conditions like radiographic axSpA or ankylosing spondylitis.