Low back pain is a very common symptom. It occurs in high-income, middle-income, and low-income
countries and all age groups from children to the elderly population. Globally, years …

Ankylosing spondylitis is a common inflammatory rheumatic disease that affects the axial
skeleton, causing characteristic inflammatory back pain, which can lead to structural and …

Many clinical practice guidelines recommend similar approaches for the assessment and
management of low back pain. Recommendations include use of a biopsychosocial framework …

Objective The signs and symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) respond inadequately to
nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, and disease‐modifying antirheumatic …

Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of adalimumab, a fully human recombinant IgG1
monoclonal antibody that specifically targets human tumor necrosis factor, in patients with …

Objective Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is diagnosed late, because radiographs of the sacroiliac
joints often do not show definite sacroiliitis at the time of disease onset. The aim of this …

… Braun J, Sieper J. The sacroiliac joint in the spondyloarthropathies. Curr Opin Rheumatol …
Sieper J, Braun J. Pathogenesis of spondylarthropathies: persistent bacterial antigen, …

The term axial spondyloarthritis covers both patients with non-radiographic and radiographic
axial spondyloarthritis, which is also termed ankylosing spondylitis. The disease usually …

Background Since the publication of the European League Against Rheumatism recommendations
for the pharmacological treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in 2012, new evidence …

Objective Back pain associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is referred to as inflammatory
back pain (IBP). The value of the clinical history in differentiating IBP from mechanical low …