Rheumatoid arthritis is actually a disease of the autoimmune system, but patients often have joint and muscle soreness, heaviness? , and pain. Long-term rheumatoid arthritis most often presents with joint pain, such as knee and ankle pain in the joints of the lower extremities, and occasionally shoulder, elbow and wrist pain. The symptoms of joint pain are recurrent, and when local inflammation is evident, swelling and pain are also accompanied by elevated skin temperature and restricted movement. However, patients usually do not remain disabled after the joint inflammation subsides, but the joints may become dysfunctional or deformed. Patients should take the following points as maintenance guidelines: 1. Patients must move their joints to avoid stiffness and contracture and prevent muscle atrophy. 2, patients can promote blood circulation in the body through functional exercise, improve the local nutritional status, enhance immunity, so that the inflammation subsides as soon as possible to prevent recurrence. 3, patients should avoid strenuous exercise when doing exercise, you can try relaxing stretching exercises such as yoga, Tai Chi, etc., to tone up the body. 4, patients should avoid contact with cold water, not to mention the wind, otherwise it is easy to lead to inflammation recurrence, aggravating the patient’s pain. The joints should be kept warm, do not wear wet clothes, wet shoes, wet socks, etc.. In the summer, do not be cool, air conditioning can not blow directly, do not drink cold drinks, etc., autumn and winter to prevent the wind and cold invasion, pay attention to warmth is the most important. 5, the patient should not blindly believe in the prescriptions, such as eating ginger and pepper and other irritating mistakes can get rid of rheumatism, these methods have not been scientifically certified, the results are often likely to be counterproductive. 6, can reduce symptoms with the help of Chinese physical therapy means, such as hot compress joints, cupping, etc., but by professional Chinese medicine treatment. 7, the upper respiratory tract infection is most likely to trigger rheumatoid arthritis, should pay attention to prevention. 8, the patient is generally advisable to enter the high protein, high heat, easy to digest food, less spicy stimulation and cold, greasy things. Do not worry about the weakness of the body, not enough nutrition and overeating, increasing the burden on the spleen and stomach, injury to the digestive function. 9, to combine work and rest, activities and rest should be moderate, too fatigue, people’s immunity will also be reduced, easy to trigger some diseases. Be good at moderating bad emotions, open-minded, happy life, and thus make the body healthy, to remember that “the righteousness of the internal, the evil can not dry”. Maintaining a normal psychological state is important to maintain the normal immune function of the body. Rheumatoid arthritis patients in the long course of the disease, in the sudden climate changes or rainy season and typhoons, rainstorms, severe winter, heat, more likely to feel the wind and cold, dampness and heatstroke, etc., will cause patients pain, this should be taken seriously. In case of serious complications such as pneumonia, heart failure and high fever, the patient should be treated in the hospital in the morning. The principle of drug treatment for such diseases is early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment, and early and reasonable, combined medication, which is the conservative treatment for rheumatic diseases.