The most common one is joint injection. Joint injection is taken with a cold spray or anesthesia. It carries medication to reduce pain and also helps the physician diagnose the cause of the swelling joint. The way it is done is first the skin has to be cleaned, then a needle is inserted through the skin which the needle is attached to a syringe. Here the fluid in the joints can be obtained and tested through laboratory tests or medication can be inserted. There are risks of infection and bleeding, but even then this is very rare. Joint replacement Surgery is another type of treatment where the surgeon or orthopaedic will replace the whole joint or at times will replace or fix the damaged parts. Drugs are also used to help treat RA. DMARDs are commonly used, but are very expensive and if side effects are present they are usually …show more content…
There are some people who show it for a short period of time, then there are others to whom it comes and goes, then there is the severe case who will have it for a lifetime. If we focus on the severe case of Rheumatoid arthritis, it typically starts with a healthy joint, then the White blood cells will start to attack its own tissues. In this case it will intrude the synovium causing it to swell on account of synovium increasing. As progress continues, synovial cells continue to strike and destroy the cartilage and bones within the joint ,and eventually the muscles, ligaments and tendons will not provide support in that area. This result in pain, loss of function and deformities. To check the progress or severity of rheumatoid arthritis your doctor will perform an x-ray to see the damage of the joints. Another technique used to detect the advancement of the disease is to do a blood test, the higher the levels of rheumatoid factors that show up, the advanced the disease