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At Cook Children's Pediatric Rheumatology we try to make it a little easier.</p> <p>Most people think of things like arthritis, scleroderma or Crohn's disease as something that only older adults get. But kids get these and many other conditions as well. At Cook Children's, we're here to help kids and teens with things like persistent arthritis and joint pain, symptoms associated with autoimmune diseases and much, much more.</p> <h3>Conditions treated</h3> <ul> <li><a title="Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis also known as juvenile idiopathic arthritis" href="https://kidshealth.org/CookChildrens/en/parents/jra.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis</a></li> <li><a title="Lupus" href="https://kidshealth.org/CookChildrens/en/parents/lupus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Systemic lupus erythematosus</a></li> <li><a title="Juvenile dermatomyositis" href="https://kidshealth.org/CookChildrens/en/parents/jdm.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dermatomyositis</a></li> <li>Scleroderma</li> <li>Spondyloarthropathies, such as ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter syndrome, psoriatic arthritis and the arthritis associated with ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease</li> <li>Vasculopathies of childhood, including Kawasaki syndrome, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, Wegener granulomatosis and related conditions</li> </ul> <section class="score-stripe section-block left-align" style="" data-epi-type="content"> <div class="container"> <div class="w-full"> <div aria-label="Page Section" tabindex="0" class="section-header"> <h3 class=""> What is rheumatoid arthritis? </h3> </div> <div class="content-area"> <div class=" w-8col"> <div class="youtube-wrapper "> <div class="youtube score-video score-youtube-video" tabindex="0"> <img class="youtube-thumbnail" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gmp-idAPOaQ/maxresdefault.jpg"> <div data-react-component="Analytics" data-props="loaded"><span class="analytics-source" data-event="VideoClicked"></span></div> <iframe class="youtube-iframe" id="ytplayer-Gmp-idAPOaQ" data-id="Gmp-idAPOaQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" title="Rheumatoid Arthritis Animation - Cook Children's" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gmp-idAPOaQ?playsinline=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&frameborder=0&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cookchildrens.org&widgetid=1&forigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cookchildrens.org%2Fservices%2Frheumatology&aoriginsup=1&vf=1">
An overview of rheumatoid arthritis, how it affects the body and where in the body it frequently occurs.
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