Welcome, everyone. I'm Dr. John Whyte, the chief medical officer at WebMD. Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that causes pain and stiffness in your spine. It usually starts in your ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) does more than cause the telltale symptoms of lower back pain and stiffness — it can cause a range of symptoms and complications throughout your body, including an ...

Being bipedal – walking on our legs makes us the most advanced in evolution, but it has its own effect on our spine, our ...

To successfully manage ankylosing spondylitis (AS), I recommend being active, staying social, and living your life the way you want to as much as possible. Many of today’s assistive devices ...

With a career spanning over five decades, Dr. Khan is a distinguished authority in the field of rheumatology, specializing in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and related spondyloarthropathies.

Certain exercises, such as stretches and rotations, can help heal herniated discs by pushing the disc away from the nerve root. Herniated discs (also called bulging discs or slipped discs) can be ...

These initial symptoms often correlate with Ankylosing spondylitis, a condition that can progress from mild discomfort to ...

Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic rheumatic inflammatory disease. Before the advent of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, treatment was often ineffective, and severe ankylosing ...

It’s two years since Novartis got its Cosentyx IL-17 drug approved for the spinal disease ankylosing spondylitis, and the Swiss pharma company has new data that it hopes will allow it to compete ...

TNF-blocking agents have proven very effective against ankylosing spondylitis in many patients, but can produce severe adverse effects and are ineffective in 30% of those treated. Researchers in ...