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Self Care and Home Remedies for Psoriatic Arthritis. Besides the treatment prescribed by your dermatologist to lessen your symptoms, there are certain remedial steps which you can take and habits you must inculcate which will help reduce your symptoms of psoriatic arthritis and act synergistically with the treatment.  Psoriatic arthritis cannot be cured but only [...]

Causes of Psoriatic Arthritis. Though the exact cause of psoriatic arthritis is not known, what is known is that this occurs due to a disorder in the immune system which wrongly attacks the healthy cells and tissues of the body. This results in the inflammation of joints in psoriatic arthritis or the excessive production of [...]

Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis. This disease can develop slowly or can have a rapid and severe onset. It is characterized by periods of remission and flare-ups. This type of arthritis more commonly involves the knees, ankles and the small joints of the feet. Most of the psoriatic arthritis patients already have predeveloped skin psoriasis and [...]

Types of Psoriasis Arthritis. There are five types of psoriasis arthritis. Knowing the type of psoriatic arthritis is important in lieu of finalizing the line of treatment. As mentioned in psoriatic arthritis, 30% of the people with psoriasis develop arthritis psoriasis, which is characterized by chronic inflammation of the joints. The joints affected, depends on [...]

What is Psoriatic Arthritis. Arthritis Psoriasis is an auto immune disease, without cure and characterized by  chronic inflammation of the skin and the joints. It is considered as a type of psoriasis.