About Clinic

Al-Ahli Hospital's Rheumatology, Osteoporosis and Bone metabolism department "The ARC Rheumatology Care" concentrates on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of rheumatic disorders of bones and joints, tendons and muscles.

This Department deals with the following health conditions:

Osteoporosis Management
A definite unit of the Rheumatology department, Testing includes: DEXA Scan using "Lunar Prodigy Advance" to detect Osteoporosis, as well evaluating the fat and lean tissues content for an approach to maintain a balance between bone, muscles and fat.

Spine pain
- mechanical pain: Neck, Dorsal spine and Lumbar spine
- inflammatory back pain (with sacro-iliac joint disorders) and enthesitis pain (affecting the tendon insertions) related to Ankylosing spondylitis and psoriasis arthritis, a common rheumatism affecting the spine and joints

Tendon, tenosynovitis and bursitis disorders: Shoulder tendinitis, heels fasciitis, Tennis elbow, Trigger fingers and other sites of the wrists, hips, knees, ankles and front feet.

Arthritis, inflammatory rheumatism and connective tissue disorders
- related to immune system rheumatism and auto-antibody formation inducing: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Anti-phospholipid syndrome, Polymyositis, Scleroderma, Mixte syndrome, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjogren syndrome.

Osteoarthritis with non-surgical approach, all sites.

In total there are 550 rheumatic disorders and related conditions with subtypes reaching a thousand.