Rheumatology is a branch of medicine Ardent to the diagnosis and rheumatic diseases.

Rheumatologists deals with immunological or immune mediated disorders of the musculoskeletal system, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitides, and heritable connective tissue disorders.

These diseases are also known to be disorders of the immune system. Rheumatology is considered as the study and practice of medical immunology.

Degenerative arthropathies

• Osteoarthritis

Inflammatory arthropathies

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Spondyloarthropathies
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Reactive arthritis (reactive arthropathy)
  • Psoriatic arthropathy
  • Enteropathic arthropathy
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
• Crystal arthropathies: gout, pseudogout
• Septic arthritis

Systemic conditions and connective tissue diseases

Medical laser for the treatment of rheumatism.

• Lupus
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
• Sjögren's syndrome
• Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
• Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
• Dermatomyositis
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Adult-onset Still's disease
• Sarcoidosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Myofascial pain syndrome
• Vasculitis
  • Microscopic polyangiitis
  • Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener's granulomatosis)
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Henoch–Schönlein purpura
  • Serum sickness
  • Giant cell arteritis, Temporal arteritis
  • Takayasu's arteritis
  • Behçet's syndrome
  • Kawasaki's disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
  • Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
  • Hereditary periodic fever syndromes

Soft tissue rheumatism

This is local diseases and affects the Structure of joints and whole joints which includes tendons, ligaments capsules, stress fractures, muscles, nerve entrapment, vascular lesions, and ganglia. For example:

• Low back pain
• Tennis elbow
• Golfer's elbow
• Olecranon bursitis