sclerodermia and ankylosing spondylitis

The authors administered by passive haemagglutination, natural or denatured type I and II anticollagen antibodies in the serum of 83 rheumatoid polyarthritis, 20 ankylosing spondylarthritis, 30 relapsing polychondritis, 13 diffuse sclerodermics, 12 Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome patients. Type II natural anti-collagen antibodies are common in relapsing polychondritis (37 percent). They are rarer in rheumatoid polyarthritis (15 percent) and the frequency is identical to that found in patients suffering from gonarthrosis and coxarthrosis...

The physiotherapy of inflammatory rheumatic diseases is interpreted at the instance of the clinical pictures of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and progressive sclerodermia. Issuing from the clinical picture in each case the aim of therapy and the application of physiotherapy are described. For practice it is particularly referred to the significance of the temporary phases of the disease with regard to therapeutic purpose and planning of physiotherapy.