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This is according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

You might not know it
but you could be suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Although rheumatoid arthritis is commonly associated with the older generation (people over the age of 65)
the disease is found in younger generations - even including children. How could you tell if you have it? Well if you're experiencing morning stiffness for no apparent reason (like if you had done a lot of strenuous exercise the night before
for example)
you might be suffering from one of it's symptoms. As mild as you might think morning stiffness is
you really ought to give it some serious thought and consult with your doctor because if that morning stiffness is related to rheumatoid arthritis
you can work to prevent it from disabling or crippling you later on down the road to a point where you can barely function. But rheumatoid arthritis isn't just a physical condition. It has the propensity to tax your mental and emotional state of well-being tpp.

This is because arthritis can change the way you work
the way you interact with your family
and the way you entertain yourself with recreational activities. You might even know someone with rheumatoid arthritis and have observed how this disease changed not only his or her mobility
but also his or her outlook on life. Those of us without rheumatoid arthritis tend to take our ability to move anyway we want for granted
but when that ability slowly disappears right before our eyes
it's no surprise that we get depressed about it.

But it doesn't necessary have to be that way. With proper medications
education
support
and prescribed exercises
you could work to prevent the most severe forms of the disease - or at least prolong the worst case symptoms.

Arthritis works in two ways. First
it inflames the muscles
ligaments
and cartilage that sit in-between joints. And it's this inflammation that causes the pain
swelling
and heat. Those are symptoms that are typical indications of an injury and they're vital to understanding more about this disease. Second
arthritis works by releasing enzymes that basically consume or otherwise destroy the muscles
ligaments
and cartilage that have become inflamed to a point where they're not very useful and don't allow for easy movement. In the worse cases
cartilage disappears completely and as you can guess
this is extremely crippling and uncomfortable.

That's why we call rheumatoid arthritis a disease. Typically
inflamed muscles
ligaments
and cartilage are the result of an injury
like falling on the knees for example. But with arthritis
no injury has to occur. In fact
arthritis is a type of autoimmune disease and the cartilage inside joints is one of the things that it destroys. And any joint can be affected - one
two
maybe even more but most of the time
the disease targets fingers
hips
feet
and knees.