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.
1 Spondyloarthritis is a type of arthritis that attacks the spine and, in some people, the joints of the arms and legs. 2  It can also involve the skin, intestines and eyes.3  The main symptom (what you feel) in most patients is low back pain. 4  This occurs most often in axial spondyloarthritis.pondyloarthritis (or spondyloarthropathy) is the name for a family of inflammatory rheumatic diseases that cause arthritis. It differs from other types of arthritis, because it involves the sites are where ligaments and tendons attach to bones called âentheses.â Symptoms present in two main ways.