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Ankylosing Spondylitis

What are the symptoms?

Ankylosing spondylitis is characterised by an insidious onset usually between twenty to twenty-five years (though it can be earlier), of early morning stiffness and pain. Symptoms may improve with exercise. Pain is not always associated with the spine: it may affect the chest, buttocks or elsewhere. 

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated April 2000 by Dr A Calin (retired - formerly Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic diseases, Bath, UK. Last reviewed October 2004 by Dr R Jacoby, Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.

 

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