For most people, psoriasis causes red, itchy, and scaly patches on the skin. But for some, the tight, dry, and inflamed lesions can also cause pain in the skin. One study found that pain was ...

The main drivers of fatigue in patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis were joint pain intensity, itch severity, and psoriasis severity. Researchers found an association between psoriasis, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Analgesic opioid use was higher among individuals with psoriasis and those with concomitant psoriasis and ...

Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune condition that causes skin cells to multiply too fast, leaving behind itchy, scaly patches. But there are a number of ways the estimated 125 million people worldwide ...

A new prospective cohort study suggests joint pain, rather than skin pain or disease severity, correlates with greater use of analgesics. Patients with psoriasis use analgesics at higher rates than ...

Patients with axial psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) plus psoriasis differ with respect to clinical and genetic characteristics, according to the findings of a recent ...

A 46-year-old man presents for his first dermatology consultation for worsening symptoms of plaque psoriasis and recent-onset joint pain. He reports “painful aching” and swelling of his finger joints, ...

You may have heard that psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis are connected, but might not understand how. Although the conditions share a similar name, they can have some very different symptoms and ...

A t first glance, psoriasis is a skin disease: Skin symptoms likely led to your diagnosis, and if you’ve dealt with the stigma of psoriasis from others, it was probably because of visible skin lesions ...

I have four kids and I’m a pediatric physical therapist. It’s not that I don’t have pain all the time. I just don’t let it stop me. I think part of that is I’ve been in pain basically my whole life. I ...

People with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) appear to be at increased risk of endometriosis, whereas those with psoriasis do not appear to face heightened risk. That's according to a new study in the ...

It may be possible to modify some lifestyle and environmental factors to reduce the risk of patients transitioning from psoriasis to psoriatic arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) occurs in ...