26/12/2023
❌ Bone and joint pain is a disease mainly found in middle-aged and elderly people, people who do heavy labor and are overactive. Pain is not simply due to changes in weather, sitting, working in the wrong posture... but can also be a warning sign of dangerous bone and joint diseases that need to be detected early to prevent. risk of disability.
🚫Osteoarthritis
Symptoms of bone and joint pain can be caused by many diseases, but currently osteoarthritis is the most common disease. The disease is characterized by damage to articular cartilage and subchondral bone.
To distinguish bone and joint pain caused by osteoarthritis from other bone and joint diseases, it is often based on the characteristics of the pain, that is, with osteoarthritis, the pain often increases every time the joint moves and decreases when resting. . Every time the weather changes, especially when it's cold, the pain will become more severe. In addition, there is also stiffness in the joints every morning after waking up, but it will return to normal after a few minutes of exercise. The more severe the damage to the cartilage and subchondral bone, the more pain or stiffness the joint feels will increase and become more persistent, limiting movement, deforming the joints, and even posing a risk of disability.
Most joints can suffer from degeneration, but it is common in the knee, hip, lumbar spine, cervical spine, hands, fingers, feet and heels.
🚫Rheumatoid arthritis
In addition to osteoarthritis, joint pain can be a sign of rheumatoid arthritis. This is a chronic joint disease related to the body's immune system. If not improved early and promptly, the disease will destroy articular cartilage and subchondral bone, causing joint deformity and loss of ability to work. increased risk of disability.
With rheumatoid arthritis, pain often occurs in many small joints and is symmetrical such as pain in both knees, two fingers in the same position in both hands, accompanied by swelling, hot, red. In addition, there are signs of joint stiffness and difficulty moving joints every morning after waking up and lasting for hours, and there are also systemic symptoms such as fatigue, paleness, weight loss, and fever.
🚫Gout
People with gout also experience bone and joint pain because this is a disease caused by purine metabolism disorders in the body when the body has too much protein. The disease often causes pain, accompanied by swelling, heat, and redness in one or more joints, most commonly the toe joints, ankles, knees, and hand joints. The pain often appears at night, and the pain intensity gradually increases to the point of The patient cannot bear it, which may be accompanied by high fever, headache, and fatigue.
When gout turns into a chronic stage, joints can be permanently deformed, tumors can grow around joints, ears, under the skin, and swelling on the hands and feet.