Both my son and I will go to NIH in April for research on Juvenile Spondylitis and Ankylosing Spondylitis.

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An avid football player in high school, Riley later contracted an intensely painful degenerative back disease known as rheumatoid spondylitis.

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The company says new data could result in Arcoxia being approved for a form of chronic back pain called ankylosing spondylitis.

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Certain conditions of the spine or other parts of the body such as arthritis, scoliosis, ankylosing spondylitis, infections and tumors may also cause back pain.

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Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.

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