Rheumatology: practice question

The best answer is A, Prolonged morning stiffness. Inflammatory arthritis often causes prolonged morning stiffness, swelling, and improvement with gentle activity, unlike mechanical pain that worsens with use.

Pain only after use is more typical of mechanical disease.

Bony enlargement alone is more characteristic of osteoarthritis.

A single trauma suggests injury rather than inflammatory arthritis.

It tests Rheumatology in General Medicine. The correct option holds because: Correct: prolonged morning stiffness supports inflammatory synovitis.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

For each disease know the classic presentation, the best test, and the first-line treatment. Then use the flashcards and the other General Medicine questions on this site to test what stuck.

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