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Prevention
Currently there is no prevention for ankylosing spondylitis due to the disease being strongly influenced by genetics. Because ankylosing spondylitis is a form of spondyloarthritis, prevention is similar to other forms of arthritis. The goal of preventing arthritis is to treat the symptoms by preventing enthesitis, or inflammation of the sites of ligament and tendon attachment to bone. In order to prevent the disease from worsening, maintenance needs to take place in the inflammation stage of the disease before the vertebrae fuse.