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Ankylosing Spondylitis
Background
Ankylosing spondylitis is a rheumatic disease that affects the spine. It can also affect the joints of limbs and tissues in other parts of the body. The condition is characterised by inflammation in the spinal joints followed by healing, which results in additional bone growing from both sides of the joint eventually encircling it. This means that the joint becomes ‘ankylosed’ and therefore it is immobile.
