What do Case Management nurses do? Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN is a nurse writer and educator with over 25 years of experience. She has been certified in five different clinical specialties including critical care and emergency nursing.
What is Spondyloarthritis? Spondyloarthritis is an umbrella term for inflammatory diseases that involve both the joints and the entheses (the sites where the ligaments and tendons attach to the bones). The most common of these diseases is ankylosing spondylitis.
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a systemic and chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease of the axial skeleton mainly affecting young male subjects. The clinical manifestations of AS include inflammatory back pain, unilateral or alternative buttock pain, peripheral arthritis and enthesitis and/or dactylitis.