Rheumatoid arthritis is a disabling form of arthritis. If the disease is not treated promptly, some patients may progress rapidly and become disabled within 2-3 years. Therefore, rheumatoid arthritis should be treated promptly. The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is difficult and requires a specialist in rheumatology. If the lesions are very typical, they can be seen by ordinary people. Here are a few pictures to help you get familiar with rheumatoid, and if someone close to you has a similar condition, you should seek treatment without delay. This is a typical hand presentation of early rheumatoid rheumatism. You can see that there is significant swelling in each of the proximal interphalangeal joints of both hands and both wrist joints, and the patient also had significant pressure pain at that time, and her rheumatoid factor was positive, with elevated sedimentation and CRP. The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was confirmed. This was advanced rheumatoid arthritis. Due to its location in a remote mountainous area, the patient did not receive timely diagnosis and productive treatment, and the disease progressed rapidly, becoming so 8 years after the onset. He was also positive for rheumatoid factor, with elevated sedimentation and CRP. The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was confirmed. This is the second patient with a deformed right hand that has developed a gooseneck-like deformity and tendon sheath cysts on the extensor side of the wrist and the back of the hand. The presence of such a lesion is most frightening, and the joint has long been crippled.