This kind of low back pain, the first department is rheumatology! High risk of disability...

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Ankylosing spondylitis affects not only the spine, but also other organs
.

"Low back pain is common
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Watch out for ankylosing spondylitis in these 4 conditions

Ankylosing spondylitis is a group of chronic inflammatory diseases of the general term, with sacroiliac joint, spinal involvement as the main feature, can also affect peripheral joints or extra-articular tissues and organs, the prevalence rate in China is about 0.
3%[1], the number of patients is about 3 million [^2], more likely to occur in young men, usually the age of onset is 13 to 31 years old ^[1].

The onset of ankylosing spondylitis is insidious, and the early symptoms are not very typical, but its painful "characteristics" still have a way to distinguish it in Professor Zhang Xuewu's view:

First, unexplained low back pain lasts for 3 months and more;

Secondly, the pain intensifies at night, and severe pain may wake up in the middle of the night;

There is also the back stiffness (morning stiffness) when you wake up in the morning, and exercise can relieve pain, which is characteristic of
inflammatory pain.

In addition to low back pain, some patients will also have some large joint pain in the limbs, such as neck, knee joint, heel pain and so on
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In addition to the pain, it also affects other organs