Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), which used to be known as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), recently underwent a name change to highlight the differences between childhood arthritis and adult rheumatoid arthritis. But no matter what one might choose to call it, it is the most common type of arthritis in children under the age of 16 years, and can be very hard to live with, for the child and teen and their families.
As with adult rheumatoid arthritis, the disease causes symptoms such as...
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