Rheumatology is the medical discipline that deals with rheumatic inflammatory diseases and other diseases of the muscoskeletal system. Rheumatism is the broad term for conditions that cause pain and limited motion as well as swelling and deformity in components of the locomotor system – muscles, bones, joints and ligaments.

COMMON RHEUMATIC DISEASES

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Degenerative Diseases: Osteoarthritis
• Connective tissues diseases: Systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren's Syndrome, Scleroderma, Mixed connective tissue disease, Dermatomyositis, Plymyositis, Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease, Anti-phospholipid Syndrome
• Spondyloarthropathies: Ankylosing Spondylitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathies
• Behçet's Disease
• Familial Mediterranean Fever
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Acute rheumatic fever
• Crystal arthritis: Gout, Pseudo-gout (Chondrocalcinosis)
• Metabolic Diseases: Osteoporosis, Osteomalacia, Paget's Disease
• Vascular inflammations: Takayasu Arteritis, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Microscopic Polyangitis, Churg Strauss, Wegener's Granulomatosis, Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, Other Systemic Vasculitis[
• Amyloidosis
• Infectious arthritis
• Rheumatic Signs Manifested in Systemic Disease