Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that predominantly affects the axial skeleton in adolescent patients causing spinal pain and stiffness. There is a marked delay ...

I'm Dr. John Whyte, the chief medical officer at WebMD. Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that causes pain and stiffness in your spine. It usually starts in your lower back but can ...

However, AS often gets misunderstood as back pain. Doctors say it is hard to diagnose ankylosing spondylitis based only on back pain because it is a common condition. Even though many people ...

Doctors use a number of different names for ankylosing spondylitis. Each one describes a phase or stage of the disease. As you manage your ankylosing spondylitis, the last thing you need is for ...

Ankylosing Spondylitis has no cure, which renders it a lifelong disease. The pain is not relieved by rest and is usually ...

Objective To describe the efficacy of tofacitinib in reducing pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) or ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in a post-hoc analysis of ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis that causes inflammation in certain parts of the spine. Ankylosing means stiff or rigid. Spondyl means spine. Itis refers to inflammation. The ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory ... group showed significant improvements in morning stiffness, spinal pain, functioning, QOL, enthesitis, chest expansion, ESR, and C ...

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) mostly affects the spine. It can cause damage visible on X-ray (ankylosing spondylitis) or damage that doesn’t show up on X-rays (nonradiographic axSpA). Axial ...

Patients with chronic rheumatic diseases are frequent users of alternative and complementary medicine. 1– 5 In a previous study we found that more than 50% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) ...

People who have had ankylosing spondylitis a long time and women with the disease are at higher risk of conditions affecting the skin, eyes and intestinal system. Learn more about the conditions. Back ...