Does my joint pain look inflammatory?
Rheumatologists diagnose by pattern: which joints, how long the stiffness lasts, whether movement helps. Ten questions, about a minute, and you get the pattern your symptoms fit. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere.
How this check works
Inflammatory arthritis and mechanical joint pain behave differently. Inflammation causes long morning stiffness, visible swelling and pain that eases with movement, and it often affects the same joints on both sides. Wear-related pain does the opposite: it worsens with use and settles with rest. Inflammatory back pain wakes people in the early hours and improves once they get moving. Gout announces itself with sudden, red, hot attacks. Widespread pain with poor sleep and normal tests points elsewhere again. The questions above look for those patterns, the same way a rheumatologist does in the first few minutes of a consultation.