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Neck Pain
Neck pain can be due to a strain from poor posture or osteoarthritis. It is often not an indication of a more serious issue. Seek medical care if your neck pain is followed by numbness or loss of strength in your arms or hands or if you have extreme pain radiating into your shoulder or down your arm.
Possible diseases
Herniated discs or bone spurs in the vertebrae of your neck can press on the nerves diverging out from the spinal cord. It occurs when the soft tissue in the discs between your joints comes out. It’s typically caused by wearing away.
Symptoms differ significantly, depending on the site of the herniated disc and the size of the herniation.
Fortunately, the majority of herniated discs do not need any surgical procedure. With time, the indications of sciatica/radiculopathy recover in about 9 out of 10 individuals.
Just like the other body joints, the joints in your neck tend to weaken with aging. Due to osteoarthritis, the cushions (cartilage) between your bones (vertebrae) deteriorate. Your body then creates bone outgrowths that affect joint motion and cause discomfort.
Osteoarthritis is caused by the deterioration of the cartilage in the joints. This makes the cartilage split and become fragile. Symptoms may include:
If medication and exercise are not helpful, surgery to repair, strengthen, or replace damaged joints may also be considered.
It is an autoimmune condition that can impact any joint in the body. It can cause severe pain and debility, as well as inflammation.
Unlike the deterioration caused by osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis disturbs the lining of your joints, causing an agonizing inflammation that can ultimately result in bone loss and joint irregularity.
Common symptoms are:
Seek medical assistance if you have persistent pain and inflammation in your joints.
It is one of the most common causes of shoulder pain. The disease is associated with the development of an active inflammatory process in the shoulder joint, which is accompanied by:
Pathology occurs against the background of trauma, infectious diseases, hypothermia, high physical activity, allergic and autoimmune reactions. Depending on the duration and severity of symptoms, it can be acute or chronic.
Despite the varied manifestations, some symptoms of arthritis always appear. Regardless of what caused the illness, the patient observes:
It is necessary to contact a specialist to confirm the diagnosis and start treatment.
Arthrosis is a type of arthritis that’s instigated by usual wear and tear on your joints and cartilage. Cartilage is the slippery tissue that conceals the ends of your bones and supports your joint movement.
Over time, your cartilage can weaken and may even dissolve completely. This results in bone-to-bone contact in your joints and causes:
Arthrosis can impact any joint in your body. It’s most likely to affect the joints of your hands, neck, knees, and hips. As your age increases, you become more vulnerable to developing arthrosis.
It is necessary to contact a specialist to confirm the diagnosis and start treatment.
Bursitis is swelling or irritation of bursa sacs that are present all over your body. They’re filled with fluid that helps reduce friction between tissues such as bone, muscle, tendons, and skin.
Bursitis is common around key joints like:
The most common indication is pain that might build up gradually or be abrupt and severe, particularly if you have calcium deposits in the region. Your joint might also be:
Call your doctor if you have:
Also called frozen shoulder, capsulitis is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. You are more vulnerable to developing capsulitis if you're recovering from a medical illness or procedure that stops you from moving your arm.
Capsulitis usually develops gradually, and in three phases. Each phase can last several months.
For some individuals, the pain aggravates at night, sometimes disturbing sleep.
Treatment for capsulitis involves:
Also called osteonecrosis, avascular necrosis occurs when your bone tissue dies because of a deficiency of blood supply. It can result in tiny breaks in the bone and the bone's ultimate breakdown. A broken bone or displaced joint can disturb the blood flow to the bone section.
This disease is also associated with:
You may not have any indications in the early stages but as the condition deteriorates, your affected joint might hurt only when you put weight on it.
Sooner or later, you might feel the pain even when you're lying down.
Seek instantaneous medical attention if you think you have a broken bone or a dislocated joint.
Tendonitis is swelling or irritation of a tendon, which is the thick fibrous cords that attach muscle to bone. You may feel:
While tendonitis can happen in any of your tendons, it is most common around your:
Most cases of tendonitis can be effectively cured with:
If tendonitis is severe and results in the falling-out of a tendon, you may need surgery.
Osteochondrosis causes a change in the intervertebral disc and adjacent bone due to wear and tear. The intervertebral discs are immovable, fibrous rings between the discrete vertebra in the spine and act as shock absorbers for impacts.
When excess strain is applied on these discs, osseous outgrowths develop which can cause:
If you experience involuntary discharge of urine or stool, contact a doctor instantly.
Also called calcific tendonitis, or ligamentous calcification refers to the accumulation of calcium salts in a tendon. It typically occurs because of:
Symptoms include:
Surgery can take out the calcium deposit, however, it doesn’t address the reason why calcium builds up in the tendon. Prolotherapy removes that reason and also resolves the pain.
It’s a condition described by the acute start of shoulder pain followed by feebleness and/or sensory loss of the shoulder and/or upper extremity.
Common symptoms include:
Research suggests that using corticosteroids in the early stages may reduce pain and weakness recovery time. However, physiotherapeutic rehabilitation, including kinesiotherapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, deep dermal therapy, cryotherapy, and/or functional electric stimulation, is quite effective in decreasing pain and weakness.
Injuries or trauma are the most common cause of shoulder pain. An acute injury may happen from:
Shoulder problems can be minor or serious. Symptoms include:
Treatment for a shoulder injury may include first aid measures, physical therapy, medicine, and, in some cases, surgery.
Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common causes people go to the medic or miss work, and it is an important cause of disability globally. Back pain can range from a muscle throbbing to a shooting, burning, or acute sensation. Also, the pain may radiate down your leg or deteriorate with bending, twisting, lifting, standing, or walking.
Possible diseases
It occurs when the soft tissue in the discs between your joints comes out. It’s usually caused by wear and tear. Herniated discs can cause pain in your lower back or hip because the nerves there are pressed.
Symptoms differ significantly, depending on the site of the herniated disc and the size of the herniation.
Fortunately, the majority of herniated discs do not need surgery. With time, the indications of sciatica/radiculopathy improve in around 9 out of 10 individuals.
It is a tapering of the spaces within your spine, which can put pressure on the nerves that travel through the spine. Spinal stenosis happens most often in the lower back and the neck.
Some individuals with spinal stenosis may not have indications. Others may experience:
Spinal stenosis is most commonly instigated by wear-and-tear variations in the spine related to osteoarthritis. In severe cases of spinal stenosis, medics may suggest surgery to create extra space for the spinal cord or nerves.
It occurs when a bone in the spine slips forward and out of place, normally in the lower back. The worsening form of this situation is arthritis, which deteriorates the joints and ligaments keeping the spine aligned. It can cause a disc to go forward over a vertebra.
Common symptoms are:
Treatment depends on the grade of the slippage, your signs, age, and overall wellbeing. Your doctor will discuss treatment alternatives with you. You may require medicine, physical therapy, or a surgical procedure.
The sacroiliac joint lies where your spine and pelvis converge. It doesn’t move much, but it’s significant because it moves the weight of the upper body to the lower body.
Inflammation and wear and tear of the joint cartilage can occur:
The pain can be aggravated by:
As with other situations that cause chronic pain, sacroiliitis can bring about depression and sleeplessness. Treatment might involve physical therapy and medications.
Back pain usually shoots from strain, stiffness, or wound. Common reasons for back pain are:
Activities that can bring about strains or tremors include:
Symptoms include:
The majority of patients will recover with controlled physical activity, physical therapy, non-addictive non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and muscle relaxants.
Surgical intervention is needed if a patient doesn’t improve with conventional therapy and has undeniable indications (sciatica) associated with a mechanical ailment (herniated disk).
Hip Pain
Hip pain is a common problem that can be triggered by a wide range of complications. The exact location of your hip pain can offer valuable signs about the fundamental cause. Problems within the hip joint itself often result in ache on the inside of your hip or your groin. Hip pain on the exterior of your hip, upper thigh, or outer buttock is typically instigated by complications with muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues that surround your hip joint.
Possible Diseases
Hip dysplasia is the medical terminology for a hip socket that doesn’t fully cover the ball portion of the upper thighbone. This causes the hip joint to become partly or totally displaced. Most individuals with hip dysplasia are born with the ailment.
Symptoms vary by age group.
In older children and young adults, surgery may be required to move the bones into the correct positions for smooth joint movement.
Deterioration of cartilage in the joints causes osteoarthritis. This makes the cartilage split and become breakable. Sometimes, pieces of the cartilage detach in the hip joint.
Once the cartilage deteriorates enough, it fails to cushion the hip bones, causing discomfort and swelling.
Symptoms may include:
The key treatments for osteoarthritis are:
If other treatments are not working, surgery to repair, support, or change damaged joints may also be considered.
A hip fracture is grave damage, with problems that can be dangerous. The hazard of hip fracture increases with aging.
It becomes riskier because:
Indications of a hip fracture include:
A hip fracture almost always needs surgical reparation or replacement, which is followed by physical therapy.
It involves the ring of cartilage (labrum) that follows the external rim of your hip joint socket.
Players who partake in sports like ice hockey, soccer, beach ball, golf, and dance have more risk of developing hip labral tears. Structural irregularities of the hip also can result in a hip labral tear.
Many hip labral tears cause no symptoms. Some individuals, however, have one or more of the following:
Seek medical attention if symptoms aggravate or don’t recover within 6 weeks.
It disturbs your body’s normal recovering process, in which new bone tissue progressively substitutes old bone tissue. Over time, bones can become brittle and distorted. The pelvis, skull, spine, and legs are most commonly impacted.
Indications, if any, will depend on the injured part of your body. When in the pelvis, it can cause hip pain.
Talk to your doctor if you have:
Knee Pain
Knee pain is a common issue for many reasons, from acute injuries to problems of medical conditions. It can be restricted to a particular area of the knee or be radiated throughout the knee. It is often accompanied by physical restrictions. A detailed physical examination will usually create the diagnosis of knee pain.
Possible diseases
The most problem that causes knee pain is an acute injury. It may include:
Symptoms often include:
All acute injuries need immediate medical attention. Many knee fractures require significant force, and a thorough examination is performed to detect other injuries.
It is an autoimmune condition that can impact any joint in the body. It can cause severe pain and debility, as well as inflammation.
Unlike the deterioration caused by osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis disturbs the lining of your joints, causing an agonizing inflammation that can ultimately result in bone loss and joint irregularity.
Common symptoms are:
Seek medical assistance if you have persistent pain and inflammation in your knee joints.
Gout is a form of arthritis that is most commonly found in the big toe, though it can also affect the knee. It tends to flare up and is extremely agonizing during acute episodes. When there is no flare-up, the knee can be pain-free.
The symptoms of gout almost always occur suddenly, and often at night. They include:
If you experience sudden, intense pain in a joint, call your doctor. Gout that goes untreated can lead to worsening pain and joint damage.
Seek medical care immediately if you have a fever and a joint is hot and inflamed, which can be a sign of infection.
With septic arthritis (also called infectious arthritis), the knee joint can become infected. It can come from germs that travel through your bloodstream from another part of your body. This leads to:
You may also experience loosening of the joints, which causes pain while moving the joint or while putting weight on the joint. Typically, the pain goes away when at rest. In extreme cases, the joint may become dislocated.
This condition requires antibiotics and drainage treatments as soon as possible. If you have an artificial joint, see your doctor if you experience pain while using the joint.
It is an inflammation of the tendons connecting the kneecap (patella) to the shinbone (the bone of the lower leg). It is a chronic condition often found in individuals repeating the same motion during exercise (such as runners and cyclists).
Pain is the first symptom of patellar tendinitis, usually between your kneecap and where the tendon attaches to your shinbone (tibia).
Initially, you may only feel pain in your knee as you begin a physical activity or just after an intense workout. Over time, the pain worsens and starts to interfere with playing your sport. Ultimately, the pain inhibits your daily movements such as climbing stairs or rising from a chair.
Call your doctor if your pain:
Deterioration of cartilage in the joints causes osteoarthritis. This makes the cartilage split and become breakable. Sometimes, pieces of the cartilage detach in the hip joint.
Once the cartilage deteriorates enough, it fails to cushion the hip bones, causing discomfort and swelling.
Symptoms may include:
The key treatments for osteoarthritis are:
If other treatments are not working, surgery to repair, support, or change damaged joints may also be considered.
Leg Pain
Most leg pain results from wear and tear, overuse, or wounds in joints or bones or muscles, ligaments, tendons, or other soft tissues. Some kinds of leg pain can be traced to issues in your lower spine. Leg pain can also be caused by blood clots, varicose veins, or poor circulation.
Possible diseases
With this condition, your limbs, normally your legs, don’t get sufficient blood. It typically occurs since your arteries have constricted. Your legs may feel:
Some individuals can manage PAD with habit changes, such as quitting smoking. If that doesn’t work, your medic might give you medication to treat the problem or assist with the pain. However, some individuals require surgery.
This is a blood clot in a vein, typically in your thigh or lower leg. It doesn’t always cause indications, but you might have:
Call your doctor immediately if you notice any of these. DVT can result in a grave ailment called a pulmonary embolism, when the clot breaks off and goes to your lungs. Your consultant can give you medication to keep clots from creating, developing, or breaking off.
This occurs when there’s an injury to the nerves in your body that communicate messages to and from your brain. The most common reason is diabetes, but other health circumstances, medications, wounds, or infections can cause it.
If it disturbs the nerves in your legs, they might feel:
Your consultant will treat the ailment that’s instigating it and give you medication for discomfort if you need it.
This disorder occurs when the spaces within the bones in your spine get constricted. That puts stress on the nerves in the region and can cause:
See your medic immediately if you have any of these indications. Medicine can ease the ache, and physical therapy can aid, too. If these don’t work, you might need a surgical procedure.
This is leg pain that comes from a pinched nerve in your lower spine. It can vary from a bad spasm to a strong shooting ache that makes it difficult to stand or even sit. You might feel it due to a:
Your medic might suggest over-the-counter pain medicines or physical therapy. If you have a more grave situation, you might need a surgical procedure.
The disease is associated with the development of an active inflammatory process in the joint, which is accompanied by:
Despite the varied manifestations, some symptoms of arthritis always appear. Regardless of what caused the illness, the patient observes:
It is necessary to contact a specialist to confirm the diagnosis and start treatment.
When veins have to work harder to get blood back to your heart, they swell and look warped, blue, or dark purple. They can make your legs feel:
You’re more probable to have them as you age, or if you’re bulky, expecting, or stand or sit for long stretches.
Losing weight, working out, or wearing compression stockings may benefit. If they don’t, talk with your consultant about other treatment alternatives.
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