Morning stiffness severity assessment
The speaker emphasizes that while typical morning stiffness lasts 15–30 minutes, a patient who reports stiffness lasting half the day is suffering from a substantially more severe disease. This simple clinical question costs nothing and can guide the aggressiveness of intervention.
Inflammatory cytokines accumulate overnight when joints are immobile, causing gel‑like stiffness; longer resolution times imply higher cytokine loads and more destructive synovitis.
ważnym elementem w ocenie agresywności procesu zapalnego jest zapytanie pacjenta Jak długo trzyma go sztywność poranna zwykle trwa 15-30 minut ale jeżeli trwał na pół dnia jest to choroba cięższa

