SGH Rheumatology
Rheumatology is a subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders.
Scope of services :
- Saudi German Hospital Rheumatology department offers a wide range of services to patients for the diagnosis and treatment of joint, bone, and connective tissue diseases. Diagnosis and treatment of patients with Rheumatic diseases using the latest technology aimed at the prevention of deformities, and morbidity and give the patient good quality of life. In addition, the department also offers diagnosis and treatment to patients with musculoskeletal pain and works closely with colleagues in the other departments to help patients develop long-term pain management programs.
- Treatment of rheumatic diseases includes:
Degenerative arthropathies (Osteoarthritis)
Inflammatory arthropathies:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Juvenile Idiopathic arthritis
- Crystal arthropathies (Gout and Pseudogout)
- Septic arthritis
Systemic conditions and connective tissue diseases:
- Lupus
- Sjogren’s syndrome
- Scleroderma
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Polycondritis
- Vasculitis
Soft Tissue Rheumatism
- Stress Fractures
- Muscles and nerve entrapment
- Ganglions
- Low back pain
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer’s elbow
- Fibromyalgia
Diseases affecting bones
- Osteoporosis
- Osteomalacia
