Dr. Alok Kalyani

Welcome to Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases Center

Rheumatology is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and paediatrics, involved with the diagnosis and therapy of problems arising in the joints and soft tissues, as well as autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders. Clinicians who trained in rheumatology are called Rheumatologists.

Rheumatologists diagnose and focus on non-surgical treatment of arthritis and related rheumatic diseases, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, Fibromyalgia and other disorders of the joints and connective tissues of the body.

The simplest way to understand rheumatology is that it deals with ‘aches and pains’ in the joints, spine, muscles and related tissues that help us move our body (also called musculoskeletal or locomotor system). In vernacular it is called ‘Gathia-Bai’. The specialists who deal with rheumatological (‘Gathia-bai’) diseases are known as Rheumatologists.