Joint Pain

🟢 Arthralgia is a term for joint pain that can feel like aching or soreness. The pain can be temporary or chronic, and vary in intensity. It can affect multiple joints at different times, and often impacts the shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, hips, back, feet, or pelvis.It can be divided into:

1. Injuries: Sprains, strains, fractures, dislocations, or overuse
2. Infections: Viral or bacterial infections, like chickenpox or rheumatic fever
3. Autoimmune diseases: Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or Sjogren’s syndrome

🟢 Joint pain tends to affect people who have:
Arthritis or other long-term (chronic) medical conditions.
Previous injuries to a joint.
Repeatedly used and/or overused a muscle.
Depression, anxiety and/or stress.
Overweight (having a BMI, or body mass index, greater than 25) or obesity (having a BMI greater than 30).
Age is also a factor in stiff and painful joints. After years of use and wear and tear on your joints, problems may arise after age 45.

🟢Some new treatments for joint pain include: 

stem cell injections where a patient’s own stem cells are extracted and injected into the affected joint to potentially stimulate cartilage regeneration, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections that concentrate platelets from a patient’s blood and inject them into the joint to promote healing, viscosupplementation using injections of a gel-like substance to lubricate the joint, knee embolization which targets inflammation in the knee joint lining, and gene therapy which is still in research stages but could potentially modify genes to prevent cartilage degeneration.