What Is a Rheumatologist?
A rheumatologist is a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. Rheumatic diseases affect the supporting structures of the body, including the joints and connective tissues, causing pain and inflammation. Rheumatologists don’t perform surgery, but rather focus treatment on pain management and improving your overall quality of life through medication, physical therapy, and other prescribed treatments.
Which conditions do rheumatologists treat?
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Adult onset Still's disease
- ANCA vasculitis
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Churg Strauss syndrome
- Dermatomyositis
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Fibromyalgia
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Glucocorticoid-induced Osteoporosis
- Gout
- HCV-Associated Arthritis
- HIV-Associated Rheumatic Disease Syndromes
- Inflammatory myopathy
- Joint pain
- Lofgren's syndrome
- Lupus
- Lyme Disease
- Myopathies
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteonecrosis
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's Disease
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Polymyositis
- Pseudogout
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Reactive Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sjögren's Syndrome
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spondyloarthritis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Temoporal arteritis
- Takayasu's Arteritis
- Tendonitis
- Vasculitis
- Wegner's Granulomatosis
