Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory condition affecting elderly people and involving the girdles. [1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is considered to be a benign disease by some, while others think it is a more serious illness which required similar treatment to giant cell arteritis (GCA). The progress ...

Our results support the hypothesis that a low initial dose of prednisone is sufficient to control PMR in the majority of patients. They also suggest that 0.20 mg per kg weight could be the ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that manifests itself mainly with skin symptoms (dryness, itching, scaly skin, abnormal patches and plaques). It affects about 2% of the ...

But awkwardness aside, Broderick credits regular tai chi classes for decreasing pain from knee OA and a long bout with polymyalgia rheumatica. “I can do things I didn’t think were possible before,” ...

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Skin diseases are pathologic conditions that affect the body's surfaces (also called the integument), including skin, hair, nails and associated glands. They can involve all layers of the skin and ...

The pain mainly radiates to the eyebrow and into the orbit or into the nose or jaw. Lacrimation, conjunctival injection, nasal congestion, sneezing, and redness of the skin in the forehead are typical ...