Health and Fitness Oasis

Juvenile arthritis was previously called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) and was described in children 16 and under. In the last 10 years the word “rheumatoid” was dropped from the name because it gave people the idea that the disease process is the same as the adult form of rheumatoid arthritis. Which it is not.
Juvenile arthritis has several other names such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, juvenile chronic Arthritis and childhood arthritis. Actually, juvenile arthritis is a combination of 3 different diseases that are arthritic in their nature.

This disease condition will affect one in every 1000 children in the United States. Children suffer from pain, stiffness and swelling that will last longer than six weeks and is not caused by an injury or any other illness. Although the arthritis will initially present itself after an injury researchers have found that these are not the causes, only a trigger.

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