Joint pain is a common discomfort.
Joint pain can be discomfort, pain or inflammation arising from any part of a joint — including cartilage, bone, ligaments, tendons or muscles.
Most commonly, however, joint pain refers to arthritis or arthralgia.
Joint pain can be mild, causing soreness only after certain activities, or it can be severe, making even limited movement, particularly bearing weight, extremely painful.
Causes
Causes of joint pain include:
- Broken bone
- Bursitis (joint inflammation)
- Fibromyalgia
- Gout (arthritis related to excess uric acid)
- Wrinkle
- Lyme disease
- Osteoarthritis (disease causing the breakdown of joints)
- Lupus
- Bone cancer
- Hypothyroidism
- Leukemia
- Rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory joint disease)
- Rheumatic fever
- Osteomyelitis (a bone infection)
- Septic arthritis
- Rickets
- Stretching and more.
When to see a doctor
Joint pain is rarely an emergency.
Most cases of mild joint pain can be successfully managed at home.
Make an appointment with your doctor if your joint pain is accompanied by:
- Swelling
- Redness
- Tenderness and warmth around the joint
See a doctor immediately if your joint pain is caused by an injury and is accompanied by:
- Joint deformity
- Inability to use the joint
- Intense pain
- Sudden swelling
Source:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/joint-pain/basics/definition/sym-20050668
