Musculoskeletal disorders includes joints, muscle, tendons, ligament affections. 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.
- Arthritis - One of the most common causes of joint pain is arthritis. The two main forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
- Bursitis, or inflammation of the cushioning pads around joints
- Lupus
- Gout
- Certain infectious diseases, such as mumps, influenza, and hepatitis
- Chondromalacia of the patella, or a breakdown of the cartilage in the kneecap
- An injury
- Tendinitis, or inflammation of the tendon
- An infection of the bone
- Overuse of a joint
- Cancer
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoporosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Rickets
- Joint redness
- Joint swelling
- Joint tenderness
- Joint warmth
- Limping
- Locking of the joint
- Loss of range of motion of the joint
- Stiffness
- Weakness
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- Osteoarthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Arthritis associated with colitis or Psoriasis
- SLE, or Lupus
- Scleroderma, or Systemic sclerosis
- Dermatomyositis