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Patients, who experience joint pain in their feet or in their knees, could be suffering from crystalloid conditions. Crystalloid conditions are basically conditions that are caused by, deposits of different crystals in the joints. We refer to crystalloid conditions when we talk about Gout and Pseudogout. Now try to recall the names of crystalloid types of Arthritis.

Many patients don’t even know that Helicobacter pylori can cause gastric cancer but those who do find it out tend to get scared and become insecure about it especially because gastric cancer is very lethal. This over here is the stomach. In the gastrointestinal tract it is located between the esophagus and duodenum and that is exactly where Helicobacter pylori can be found.

The first group of conditions I want to talk about are inflammatory in their nature. It means that inflammation in these conditions is the source of joint pain.

Before we explain how to recognize each one of these conditions, it’s important to say that psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis can be distinguished from rheumatoid arthritis by negative rheumatoid factor results.

If you have injured your joint and even after taking a break from sports and other activities, you still experience symptoms such as pain, it could be that you are suffering from an undiagnosed sprain. To better explain what that is, let me show you the shoulder joint.

This, which you can see here, is the humerus. Now the head of the humerus is articulating with the glenoid fossa of the scapula. The scapula is the shoulder blade. This, which you can see here, is the caracohumeral ligament. And ligaments help stabilize the joints in the human body.

What can usually happen is that upon an examination the doctor does not notice that the joint is unstable in a certain position or during a certain movement.

Joint pain, caused by a rheumatoid Arthritis is basically pain, caused by an autoimmune disease. In rheumatoid Arthritis, our own immune system attacks our own joints. And it does that in a particular way. Unlike psoriatic Arthritis, rheumatoid Arthritis attacks all the metacarpal phalangeal joints equally and it also attacks the proximal interphalangeal joints equally. We refer to that as a symmetric inflammation, caused by a rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis can also cause nodules to appear in those joints, and these nodules can also appear on different places in the human body, such as the elbow. Alright now try to recall the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis