Psoriatic Arthritis is another type of arthritis disorder i.e. human Joint Disorder. It is a long term or chronic disease. Psoriatic Arthritis is named after a chronic skin disease Psoriasis because it is assumed that from 5% to 30% of the people, depending upon the region, having Psoriasis can develop Psoriatic Arthritis. Some time it takes years to develop Psoriatic Arthritis after people find first signs of Psoriasis. During Psoriasis red patches appear on the skin. You can visually examine these red rashes in a better way in a psoriatic arthritis video or image.

Although practitioners combine these two diseases but it doesn’t mean that Psoriasis is the main cause of Psoriatic Arthritis. But you can say that one different kind of disease, Psoriasis in this case, makes the human immune system busy and creates supportive conditions for the other, Psoriatic Arthritis, to attack. In fact the exact cause of Psoriatic Arthritis is not known yet. If there are red rashes on the skin above or near the knee joint doesn’t lead to the conclusion that the same joint is affected with Psoriatic Arthritis. Psoriatic Arthritis, in most cases, affect the joint of fingers but it can also attack on the joint of knees, elbows, ankles and wrists. During this disease swelling and inflammation occurs on finger joints. Nail might also be affected.

Causes of Psoriatic Arthritis: As it is already mentioned that the exact causes behind this joint disorder are not known. Some conditions prepare the grounds for the development of Psoriatic Arthritis. Doctors believe that some of the people develop Psoriatic Arthritis by inheriting concerning genes from parents. These people are predisposed to this disease means ready to develop the disease.

Sometime our immune system starts to attack cells and tissues. This odd behavior of immune mechanism leads to pain and inflammation in our joints.

In other cases, where people have any family history of this joint disorder, the development of psoriatic arthritis can be triggered by infections due to viruses and bacteria.

Symptoms: There some common physical signs you can use to identify if there is any development of psoriatic arthritis. It is easy to keep the signs in mind if you visually see them. You can do this by watching psoriatic arthritis video provided on some websites on the internet. The following are the symptoms of psoriatic joint disorder:

1. Swelling in fingers: The most common target of psoriatic arthritis is our finger joints especially the ones near nails. Swelling of fingers with pain might be the evidence of the presence of psoriatic arthritis.

2. Pain in the heel: Persons with psoriatic disorder suffer from the pain in the back part of the heel cause discomfort. This pain occurs in the bands of tissues called ligaments and tendons used to bound the bones with muscles.

3. Pain the lower back parts: Psoriatic Arthritis causes the pain in or near the bone segments, called vertebrae, composing the spinal column and pelvis joints. This situation is called spondylitis.

Psoriatic Arthritis is not the kind of disease which can be ignored. It is very harmful and your joints can be damaged for the rest of your life. Consult specialists as soon as possible after detecting any sign of it.