Some of the best treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis include medications, therapy and surgery.
Medications- Some of the medications effective in treating Rheumatoid Arthritis are:
- NSAIDs
- Steroids
- Conventional DMARDs
- Biological Agents
- Targeted Synthetic DMARDs
Therapy: When it comes to therapy, your doctor may recommend you to join a physical or occupational therapy class where you will be taught exercises to help manage the pain and inflammation of your joints.
Surgery: But when all other methods have not given any successful results, the final option is surgery. A total of four procedures are available to a patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis. These may be used in a combination of two or three or all of them.
- Synovectomy
- Tendon Repair
- Joint Fusion
- Total Joint Replacement