The Scoop on Migratory Arthritis Migratory arthritis is a
particular form of arthritis. Arthritis is a disease that
affects thousands of people who suffer from pain and swelling in
their joints and have to deal with stiffness of movement. This
is usually the result of inflammation in the joints. Arthritis
is classified by doctors into over100 different categories
depending on the body area that is affected. Besides the
arthritis directly associated with inflammation in the joints,
there are forms of arthritis caused by diseases in other body
organs and problems of other tissues. Arthritis can affect
people of all ages, even children. Migratory arthritis is the
problem in which there is initial swelling which increases
rapidly in one or two joints and subsides over the next few
days. As the symptoms subside in the original affected areas,
the same pattern appears in another joint, usually in an
asymmetric location. This movement of the pain and swelling from
joint to joint is the reason for the name of the pro