Being afflicted with chronic joint ache, fatigue, swelling, or stiffness will impact your quality of life directly. They are most often indicators of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or other autoimmune conditions. In this case, a certified rheumatologist should be employed. They are experts at diagnosing and managing complex musculoskeletal disorders and systemic autoimmune diseases that essentially involve joints, muscles, and bones.

Lahoris require the most experienced rheumatologist since they develop joint disease solely due to aging, lifestyle, hereditary, or infection. Proper treatment by the rheumatologist should be done so that it may not cause more harm, decrease swelling, and offer long-term treatment according to the status of the patient. Proper treatment and recovery with a rheumatologist prevent complications and offer quality of life if you have chronic pain or new symptoms.

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Common Rheumatologic Conditions Treated

Old rheumatologists are doctors with extensive experience in diagnosing and treating most autoimmune and musculoskeletal conditions. The following is an expanded list of most commonest rheumatological conditions treated by old rheumatologists:

Rheumatoid Arthritis

A disease in which the body's immune system begins to attack normal joint tissue and inflames, damages, and deforms joints.

Osteoarthritis

Wear and tear arthritis, cartilage loss, joint pain.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Autoimmune illness, typically chronic, potentially affecting skin, kidneys, joints, and other organs, causing diffuse inflammation and damage to tissues.

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Spinal spondylitis with pain and stiffness, typically lower back.

Gout

Gouty arthritis caused by crystallization of uric acid within the joints, typically great toe.

Psoriatic Arthritis

Type of arthritis caused by skin condition psoriasis resulting in inflammation and pain of joints.

Sjogren's Syndrome

An autoimmune disorder characterized mainly by the salivary and lacrimal glands and manifesting with dry mouth and dry eyes.

Vasculitis

Vasculitis is inflammation of vessels that disrupts blood flow and causes tissue and organ necrosis.

Fibromyalgia

A chronic disorder throughout the body that leads to generalized musculoskeletal pain in muscles, insomnia, forgetfulness, and tiredness.

Juvenile Arthritis

Long was the time to provide a true description of less than 16, the illness may be an inflamed or more than one inflamed joint.

When to See a Rheumatologist

If you wake up with tender soreness, sore joints, or fatigue that lasts for weeks without reason, then see a rheumatologist. They are easy warning signs to check for:

  • Pain, swelling, or stiffness in a joint lasting more than six weeks
  • Morning stiffness for over 30 minutes
  • Chronic, unexplained weakness or fatigue
  • Autoimmune disease in the family
  • Acute, unexplained inflammatory and swelling of the joint
  • Stiffness in a joint that makes an activity of daily living difficult
Referral early will spare you the agony of multiple joint destruction, disability, or overall illness. Rheumatologists are skilled diagnosticians with a blend of clinical evaluation, laboratory investigations, and imaging.


How Rheumatologists Diagnose and Treat You

Rheumatologists arrive at their diagnosis through history, physical examination, laboratory diagnosis, and radiology. Therapy modalities used can be disease-based as per the following:

  • Drugs: Anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and biologics.
  • Lifestyle Changes: Sleep pattern, exercise pattern, and dietary pattern.
  • Physical Therapy: Strengthening exercises to increase mobility and decrease stiffness.
  • Joint Injections: Corticosteroid injection to reduce the inflammation of the involved joint.
  • Referral for Surgery: They only refer the patient for surgery in exceptional cases for joint repair or replacement by replacement surgery.

Role of Specialist Rheumatologic Care

They are neither diagnosed in the first phase by primary physicians. They are referred to a board-certified Lahore rheumatologist. They only possess autoimmune disease and body system joint disease and thus flawless diagnosis and treatment procedures could be followed.

As Lahore has one of the finest medical complexes in Pakistan, the patients are fortunate to have the finest facilities of rheumatologists and finest diagnostic facilities, imaging, and multidisciplinary services of orthopedic and physiotherapists.

Top Rheumatology hospitals and clinics of Lahore

The best-rated health centers of Lahore have in-house departments of rheumatology with new diagnostic centers:

  • Fatima Memorial Hospital
  • MedCure Hospital
  • Lahore Care Hospital
  • Integrated Medical Care (IMC) Hospital
  • Faisal Hospital (Lahore)
  • Horizon Hospital
  • Evercare Hospital Lahore
They offer end-to-end care facilities with radiology, pathology, and rehab center facilities under one building.

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