Joint pain - for most, this is a feeling of discomfort, inflammation, soreness, awkwardness or stiffness in the joints. Joint joints are an area where two or more bones meet. Joint pain is a symptom of many diseases, disorders, conditions from mild to severe. Joint pain is the result of infection, trauma, malignant neoplasms, autoimmune diseases, other abnormal changes and processes in the joints.
Joint pain may indicate a relatively mild condition, such as a slight sprain. Joint pain can be the result of a mild condition, disorder, disease such as bursitis, ankylosing spondylitis, moderate ligamentous sprain or dislocation. Joint pains can also be accompanied by serious conditions that can even be life threatening. These include rheumatoid arthritis, leukemia, or bone cancer.
Depending on the cause, pain, discomfort in the joints can be short-term, quickly disappear, for example, when joint pain occurs after lying for a long period of time, and then disappears after the resumption of movement.
Joint pains can also occur suddenly, severely, for example, pain that occurs in the shoulder dislocation. Joint pain can also be chronic, lasting for a long period of time, for example, when the pain is associated with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Causes of joint pain
Joint pains result from a wide range of traumatic conditions. These are sprains, separation of joints, concussions, sports injuries, bruises, hematomas. Other traumatic cases that cause joint pain are tennis elbow, swimmer's shoulder, torn cartilage, torn ligaments, sprained ankle.
Chronic degenerative conditions that can cause joint pain include osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. Infectious diseases, conditions that can cause joint pain, include septic arthritis, rheumatic fever.
Joint pain often occurs in combination with other symptoms that vary depending on the underlying disease, disorder, or condition. Other symptoms may include swelling of the periarticular muscles or swelling of the joint, inflammation, redness, and fever. Complications of pain can be progressive, vary depending on the underlying cause.
Diagnosis of joint pain
Diagnosis of joint pain, their root causes, begins with a thorough analysis of a personal family history of the disease, including symptoms, ending with a physical examination.
Diagnostics also includes a number of other tests. They will help identify potential underlying diseases, conditions or disorders, such as articular stratification, arthritis, and bone cancer. Depending on the alleged cause, the necessary tests, tests may include blood tests, the quality and content of substances in the synovial fluid (joint fluid), its examination, such as x-rays, computed tomography, nuclear scans, MRI.
The diagnosis of joint pain, its causes are easy to miss, because the pain can be mild, caused by other causes.
Treatment for joint pain includes diagnosing, treating a joint disease, disorder, or condition causing it. Some conditions can be easily, successfully treated (cured), while others may require more intensive treatment, may not have an optimal prognosis.
