From a Western medical perspective, rheumatism can be divided into ten major groups of diseases. Rheumatism, also known as rheumatic diseases, is a group of chronic diseases that involve bones, joints, and surrounding soft tissues such as muscles, tendons, synovium, ligaments, cartilage, and other tissues and organs. Overall, there are more than 100 types of rheumatic diseases. At present, rheumatic diseases are relatively more numerous and have more complex etiologies, and the pathogenesis is not very clear, but they are mostly closely related to autoimmunity. The specific classification of rheumatic diseases are: 1, diffuse connective tissue diseases: such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, scleroderma, polymyositis, dermatomyositis and systemic vasculitis; 2, spinal arthritis: common ankylosing spondylitis, enteropathic arthritis; 3, degenerative diseases: such diseases and age-related degeneration, such as the elderly appear 4, genetic, metabolic-related diseases: such as gout, hyperuricemia, pseudogout, these diseases can also appear joint symptoms; 5, infection-related diseases: common rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, other infection-related also include reactive arthritis; 6, tumor-related rheumatic diseases: such as some primary osteosarcoma and synovial sarcoma, as well as multiple myeloma appear some joint lesions; 7, neurovascular diseases: for example, Parkinson’s patients caused by joint muscle damage, appearing joint deformation; 8, bone and cartilage lesions: for example, chondromalacia; 9, non-joint rheumatic diseases: for example, fibromyalgia syndrome, intervertebral disc lesions, etc.; 10, diseases with joint symptoms: for example, periodic rheumatism, intermittent joint effusion, etc. If there are clinical symptoms such as joint discomfort, muscle pain, and long-term fever, we should consider whether they are caused by rheumatic diseases, and should promptly come to the clinical rheumatology department for diagnosis and treatment, and carry out systematic treatment under the guidance of doctors.