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JIA information for kids
JIA means juvenile idiopathic arthritis. JIA is arthritis that some kids get.
Joints are where two bones are joined.
They let you bend your arms and legs and other parts.
Your leg has joints in the hip, knee, ankle, foot and toes.
Your arm has joints at the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hands and fingers.
swells up
gets hard to move
hurts …for more than 6 weeks
feels hot