The Link Between IBD and Early-Onset Arthritis
About one in five people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, also experience joint pain. Enteropathic arthritis (EnA) is a chronic (long-term) type of inflammatory arthritis that can develop in people with IBD, affecting the joints in the arms and legs or spine and lower back. Arthritis symptoms like pain…