Like many other autoimmune diseases, symptoms of
psoriatic arthritis tend to come and go, alternating between flares and periods of remission, often for reasons that are unknown.
Not exact matches
Managing
psoriatic arthritis can be challenging, especially since there's no cure for the autoimmune disease that
tends to affect around 30 % of individuals who have psoriasis.
We
tend to emphasize the small joints of the hands and the feet because those are the most common joints we see involved, but shoulders, knees, cervical spine, lumbar spine, thoracic spine, and sacroiliac joints certainly are also sites that can be the early joints involved by
psoriatic arthritis.