If your patient’s back pain is not improving and is inflammatory in nature, your patient may have an undiagnosed rheumatic disease – axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), including ankylosing spondylitis (AS) – that primarily affects the spine, which can make them highly prone to spinal fracture.
Inflammatory back pain is a hallmark of axSpA and other closely related diseases within the spondyloarthritis family of diseases.
Take our free online course to increase your knowledge and awareness of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and learn the tools to appropriately suspect, diagnose, and refer axSpA patients to rheumatology, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
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