You’ve already been dealing with the visible symptoms of psoriasis, but now your health care provider expects a painful yet sometimes invisible condition that affects one out of every three people with psoriasis: psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
You’re used to tracking your psoriasis symptoms by looking at your skin, but PsA is different because the inflammation damaging your joints isn’t always visible from the outside.
Additionally, your joint pain and stiffness from PsA may not always correlate with the severity of your skin symptoms, even though people with more severe plaque psoriasis are thought to be at a higher risk for developing PsA.
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