How To Fight Back Ankylozing Spondylitis

When you get up early in the morning, often you might be feeling a severe pain right in the middle of your backbone. It may appear as if someone is piercing a knife right through your spine. If you carefully observe and see that the spine is bent a bit, and whenever you are just trying your best to straighten it, you feel as if you can not move it or feel immense pain, then it is time for you to go and visit the doctor. Make sure that you visit a good and renowned rheumatologist.
The symptoms may as well be that of Ankylosing spondylitis. This deforming disease often tends to attack people during the early ages… say early 20s or 30s. Some major visible symptoms may include hunch back formation when you are sitting idle or at rest in a sitting position. This occurs due to the fact that Ankylosing spondylitis affects the spine as much as it affects the joints and the tendons.
Some other symptoms may include stiffness of any joint in the body, arthritic pain in the joints, swelling of joints and their deformities, severe pain in the hip, neck and back etc.
The bad news is that this type of spondylitis is extremely dangerous and can cripple you literally if care is not taken beforehand. If it is neglected then the spine may permanently become hunch back and deformities may soon occur leading to complete deformity of the entire body. The joints may also have deformities. The major thing that actually happens is that the vertebra of the spine and the joints get fused together and hence allows minimum movement leading to almost stiff spine.