World Arthritis Day 2025

Date: October 12

• As Seen: World Arthritis Day.
• 2025 Theme: “Achieve Your Dreams”
• Purpose: To create awareness about arthritis, how it affects the everyday life and the significance of early diagnosis and treatment.

About Arthritis

• Arthritis is the condition where the joints are affected leading to pain and stiffness and inflammation.
• The arthritis term is Greek:
  • “arthro” = joint
  • “itis” = inflammation

History

• This was founded by the Arthritis Foundation in order to raise awareness all over the world.
• Arthritis can be traced back even to 4500 B.C., even among dinosaurs and prehistoric humans.
• The earliest scientific description and taxonomic classification was in 1715 by William Musgrave in De Arthritide Symptomatica.