Definition
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, which is inflammation or pain from within the joint itself.
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:
- Adult Still’s disease
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Avascular necrosis
- Bone cancer
- Broken bone
- Bursitis
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Dislocation
- Meralgia paresthetica
- Gonococcal arthritis
- Gout
- Hypothyroidism
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Leukemia
- Lupus
- Lyme disease
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteomyelitis
- Paget’s disease of bone
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pseudogout
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rickets
- Sarcoidosis
- Septic arthritis
- Sprains and strains
- Tendinitis
