Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ARTHRITIC CHANGES
- OSTEOARTHRITIS
- *ASYMMETRICAL
INVOLVMENT,
affects LARGE
WEIGHT BEARING
JOINTS, decrease
in ROM, stiffness
after activity
- R.A (rheumatoid arthritis
- SYMMETRICAL , affects small
joints: hands feet wrist,
HEART AND LU pathology,
weight loss/nutritional def.
decrease in stamina &
weakness
- GOUT
- affects only A FEW JOINTS, most
common in 1st metatarsal phalangeal
jt., ABRUPT, SUDDEN ONSET of severe
pain, begins at night