Arthritis can be defined as the illness which causes pain and swelling in your joints. Arthritis can even affect your skin as well as eyes. Whenever you feel pain or redness in swelling, then you must get alert that you might be suffering from arthritis. Many times people find their body paining and getting stiff over a period of time. They feel that they are not able to move their hands or legs and such people suffer with arthritis.  

It can also be termed as a disorder that affects your joints and muscles. Every joint in the body has a protective covering of capsule with lubricating fluid filled in it to assist us while moving. With joint arthritis, the cartilage of the joints get damaged and over the time it degenerates due to which friction occurs between joints and it is very painful to move.

As you grow older, your body starts showing some signs of arthritis and arthritis cannot be avoided. Arthritis is one such chronic disease which will stay for whole life and you can only do some medications to reduce the inflammation and pain. Actually arthritis is a disease arising due to combination of 100 different conditions and can occur at any stage of life.

Men, women, adults and children are the common suffers of arthritis. It is estimated that the number of people in the world suffering from arthritis is around 350 million. Half of this number covers the age group below 65 years. Arthritis is not just a one disease; rather it is a combination of 100 of distinct medical conditions which are related to joints, knee, shoulder, hips, spine, and fingers.