Therapeutic targets
- Improvement of the symptomatology
- If necessary, elimination of the pathogens
Therapy recommendations
- Symptomatic therapy: analgesics or anti-inflammatory drugs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, NSAIDs), e.g. ibuprofen.
- Antibiotics are used in a bacterial infections initially and according to resistance spectrum.
- In other forms of arthritis, the underlying disease is treated
- See also under “Further therapy“.
