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2. Ankylosing spondylitis - Wikipedia

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   Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis from the disease spectrum of axial spondyloarthritis. [ 5 ] It is characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine, typically where the spine joins the pelvis. [ 2 ] With AS, eye and bowel problems—as well as back pain—may occur. [ 2 ]

3. ‘My Low Back Pain Turned Out To Be A Rare Inflammatory ...

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   Steff DiPardo's mysterious back pain turned out to be ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory disorder that causes the bones in the spine to fuse over time. ... My next appointment was the first ...

4. List of people with ankylosing spondylitis - Wikipedia

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   Leonard Trask (1805–1861), [39] whose condition provided the first American description of anklyosing spondylitis. Dylan Verrechia (born 1976) filmmaker. Michael Woodhouse (born c. 1965), [40] Minister of Immigration, Police, and Workplace Relations and Safety for New Zealand, and Honorary Life Member of Arthritis New Zealand.

5. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis - Wikipedia

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   Ankylosing spondylitis is a genetic disease with identifiable marks, tends to start showing signs in adolescence or young adulthood, is more likely to affect the lumbar spine, and affects organs. DISH has no indication of a genetic link, is primarily thoracic and does not affect organs other than the lungs, and only indirectly due to the fusion ...

6. Lumbar spinal stenosis - Wikipedia

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   Medication, physiotherapy, injections, surgery. Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a medical condition in which the spinal canal narrows and compresses the nerves and blood vessels at the level of the lumbar vertebrae. Spinal stenosis may also affect the cervical or thoracic region, in which case it is known as cervical spinal stenosis or thoracic ...

7. BASDAI - Wikipedia

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   The BASDAI or Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index is a validated diagnostic test which allows a physician, usually a rheumatologist, to determine the effectiveness of a current drug therapy, or the need to institute a new drug therapy for the treatment of Ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The BASDAI is one of a group of classification ...