 Hi, I'm Dr. Sunil Kini working as a concert and orthopedic surgeon at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore Types of arthritis first and foremost most important is osteoarthritis or age-related arthritis, which mainly affects the elderly population But as I said nowadays, it's also seen in as young as people as late 40s and early 50s Other types of arthritis are inflammatory arthritis. For example, rheumatoid arthritis Soriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus. All these conditions affect predominantly the middle and the young population There are other forms of arthritis such as crystalline use arthritis also called as gouty arthritis The small population of this involved bacterial arthritis, viral arthritis or arthralgia