Rheumatology is a subspecialty of medicine which deals with diagnosis
and treatment of diseases of bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons
and connective tissue.
Rheumatological disorders range from chronically disabling arthritis like
rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis to multisystem diseases
like vasculitis to milder but nagging and persistant pains like chronic
back pain & neck pain .