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Axial Spondyloarthritis
Learn more about axial spondyloarthritis, a chronic inflammatory condition that primarily affects the spine and sacroiliac joints, causing pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility.
Learn more about axial spondyloarthritis, a chronic inflammatory condition that primarily affects the spine and sacroiliac joints, causing pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility.
Axial Spondyloarthritis affects around 1 in every 100 people, or about 3 million people in the U.S., impacting mobility and daily life.
Axial spondyloarthritis is a chronic (long-term) autoimmune disease. Normally, the immune system fights infections, but in autoimmune diseases, it attacks a person’s own body. In axial spondyloarthritis, the immune system causes damage to the spine.
Some people with more severe axial spondyloarthritis can see the damage to the joint between the spine and hip bones on an X-ray. This is called radiographic axial spondyloarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. When the damage isn’t visible on X-ray, it is called non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.
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