Arthritis can test the patience and limits of even the best of adults but when children are stricken with this autoimmune disease it feels as if nature has played a cruel joke on the  youngest among us. Over 300,000 children have some form of Juvenile Arthritis often cited as an “invisible illness.”

A large percentage of these children live with the silent pain of JA for years until they are finally diagnosed.

The Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) is a nationally recognized group of pediatric rheumatologists specializing in these types of childhood arthritis cases.

This group puts their collective heads together and researches different approaches to the illness and tries to answer crucial clinical questions through their combined effort. Currently CARRA is working on a blind study of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) also known as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) where 5 or more joints are affected. although there are some forms that encompass 4 or less joints in order to decide whether or not early aggressive therapy that may work in adult rheumatoid arthritis cases can transfer over to treating the same disease in children.

pain, swelling, stiffness, and limited range of motion to joint cartilage and bone damage due to deformities occurring in the joints, arthritis would not be fun to have at any age, but especially not the age of hopscotch and jump rope; climbing trees and swimming laps, playing tag and riding bikes.

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