In medical language, joint pain is called arthralgia, which is a fairly significant symptom in the diagnosis of numerous diseases.
For example, with joint damage at the organic level - irreversible immunological and biochemical disorders - joint pain is the very first sign of their occurrence.
The cause of arthralgia is the irritation of neuroreceptors located literally in the entire structure of the joint, which can occur from various factors, depending on the nature of the underlying disease. For example, from a bruise or hematoma that is not visible to the eye, joint pain may well begin.
Every third person suffers from a joint disease, the cause of which is an careless attitude to personal health, when as a result of a running injury this ailment can be provoked. Arthralgia is characteristic both for chronic and acute inflammatory diseases - arthritis, and for painful conditions of the joints after infections.
Damage, and as a result, pain in the joints can be the result of more than two hundred diseases. For example, after purulent arthritis caused by certain bacteria, 30-40% of people lose their mobility, which usually does not return. There are even more depressing statistics: as a result of such diseases, about 14% of patients die. That is why if you have a fever and you feel pain in the joints, then without delay, immediately consult a specialist. Only a competent doctor can determine the causes of pain using modern methods of examination, because there are quite a few of them - this is overweight, age-related changes, work in difficult conditions for the joint.
The most common diseases that start joint pain are :
- osteoarthritis, arthrosis, gonarthrosis, which are quite common chronic diseases, which are based on degenerative-degenerative disorders of the cartilage in the joint, bone tissue, ligamentous joint apparatus. Reasons: age, weight, metabolic disorders, lack of vitamins C and D, professional costs. Symptoms - stiffness and pain during exertion, not leaving at night.
- arthritis, polyarthritis, spondylitis - the result of a violation of the immune system and the emergence of antibodies, accompanied by an inflammatory process. Symptoms: tight mobility and pain.
- bursitis, tendonitis - inflammation not of the joint, but of the periarticular bag, which is the cause of stiffness, discomfort and pain. Symptoms: pain in the joints of the shoulder, knees or pelvis. The causes are injury, clumsy movement, or compression.
- gout - paroxysmal pains, tight mobility, redness and inflammation. The reasons are excessive production of uric acid, which is not fully utilized in the kidneys, which in crystalline form is deposited in the structure of the joints, leading to a disease that affects mainly the foot.
If you have joint pain, how to treat this ailment, only a competent specialist will help you find the causes of this disease.
There are a lot of recipes for healing today. Pharmacists, homeopaths, medical specialists, traditional healers are in a constant search for ever new remedies. So traditional medicine knows a huge number of miraculous drugs - tinctures, ointments, passed down from generation to generation, which sometimes can even help where official medicine shrugs or offers expensive surgeries.
However, everyone who has at least some kind of disease associated with joints has in his personal arsenal his own, already tested and favorite remedy that specifically helps him best, returns to normal life.