It is very important that patients immediately seek medical help when all the joints of the body are sore, the cause, their treatment is established only by specialists. Your doctor will analyze your symptoms and tell you where to go. With age, human joints begin to gradually wear out. Therefore, in most cases, pain complaints are made by elderly patients. But in some cases, young people can also complain about it. What causes several groups of joints to start hurting at the same time, and how to deal with this problem?
Risk factors
There are several risk factors that can lead to this disease. One of the most common is heredity. If, for example, several groups of joints ache at the same time in grandmothers and mothers, then this problem may sooner or later arise in the next generation.
Gender is another risk factor. It has been observed that in women, joint disease is several times more common than in men. In this case, women are more likely to fall ill after the onset of menopause. This is due to the fact that before him, women were "protected" by their own female sex hormones. With age, their number begins to decrease inevitably, and after they almost disappear, no one protects a woman, and the joints begin to gradually deform and collapse. In men, this problem practically does not arise. Therefore, the joints, due to violations of the hormonal background, hurt them somewhat less often than in women.
In men, joint pain occurs mainly due to heavy physical work. This is due to the fact that they are always under heavy load. Gradually, the cartilage begins to wear out, the joints themselves become inflamed and at the same time change shape.
People who often suffer from diseases such as tonsillitis may complain that their joints start to ache. This is due to the fact that the bacteria that cause angina can also affect joints, especially large ones.
The causes and treatment of pain in all joints of the body are closely related.
Causes of joint pain
Often, patients ask the doctor who treats them why almost all the joints and back hurt at once? There are many different reasons for this.
age. There are two groups of cells in bone tissue. One group, osteoblasts, help renew bone tissue. And the second group, osteoclasts, are directly involved in bone destruction. With age, the joints become more broken, so in old age they are deformed and destroyed. This is the main reason why in older people the joints and spine start to ache at the same time.
Hypodynamia, from which the majority of the population "suffers", can lead to the fact that several groups of joints begin to ache in a person at once. Joint injuries can also lead to disease progression. This problem can also occur in athletes who are professionally involved in sports. Often this is due to the fact that during intense exercise, the cartilage in the joints quickly wears out.
Infectious diseases and their complications often cause joint pain throughout the body and back.
Often, the diagnosis of polyarthritis, that is, inflammation of several groups of joints, is made to people who have some problems with being overweight.
Some wonder if there is a link between malnutrition and joint disease throughout the body? Experts emphatically declare: yes, and the most direct! Improper nutrition, which consists of excessive consumption of fried, fatty, spicy foods and alcoholic beverages, leads to metabolic disorders. As a result, large amounts of substances such as uric acid begin to form in the body. The excess is only stored in the joints. This leads to the fact that almost all joints and spine start to ache in a person.
Long-term use of certain hormonal drugs, especially glucocorticosteroids, leads to the gradual destruction of the joints. In this case, the lesions cover mainly large groups of joints. Often, the hips, knees, wrists and the entire spine are affected. At the same time, the pain all over the body, including the back, is so strong that it is very difficult to remove it with conventional anti-inflammatory painkillers.
Sharp pain can occur when a person, when falling supine, touches the surface of the vertebral body. In this case, a fracture of the spine is possible, it requires long -term treatment in a hospital, and then at home.
The causes of the disease are various. Therefore, before prescribing drug therapy, it is necessary to determine what led to the lesion in this case.
The diagnosis of the disease is made not only on the basis of the patient's complaint, his examination, but also on the results of this laboratory and other additional methods of examination. The most informative method for diagnosing diseases of all joints and spine is x-ray. Another method of confirming or denying a diagnosis is computed tomography.
Of the laboratory research methods, the most informative is a complete blood count with a detailed formula. Recently, joint damage throughout the body has been caused by autoimmune causes, so immunological blood tests can also be informative, they allow you to identify antibodies produced against your body’s joint cells.
Disease treatment
Treatment of diseases should begin after the true cause of their occurrence is established.
Since pain basically makes a person see a doctor, the first thing to do in any situation is to relieve the pain. Conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can help with this.
Often, the disease is accompanied by fever, aches and pains throughout the body. This should also be taken into account when prescribing treatment. Usually these symptoms indicate a disease such as rheumatism. It is autoimmune, so it affects not only the joints, but the whole body. For its treatment, the appointment of an immunomodulator is necessary.
Non -drug methods should include therapeutic measures such as massage and physiotherapy exercises. But it should be remembered that during its implementation, the patient should not feel pain.
If the cause of the disease is heavy physical exertion, then experts recommend using, for example, an elastic bandage before that, which will reduce the effect of pressure on the joints.
Preventive measures
To save your joints, you need to always protect them and engage in preventative work. After all, it is not in vain that people agree with the fact that the disease is easier to prevent than to cure. The first thing to do is to avoid hypothermia if possible, as it can lead to diseases such as tonsillitis. And he, in turn, can give complications. And by itself, hypothermia can cause inflammation of several groups of joints at once.
Both women and men need to monitor their weight carefully, as being overweight is a direct route to changing the shape of arthrosis of at least the knee and hip joints. Men and women need to monitor their physical activity. When moving, there is no stagnation of blood and joint fluid. The joints are not deformed and not sore.
In addition, you need to monitor your drinking regimen. It is known that the average adult needs to drink at least two liters of fluid per day. In this case, the synovial joint fluid is constantly updated. If there is not enough fluid, then the cartilage begins to rub, thus causing severe pain, and the joints begin to deform.
If you carefully monitor your joints, then there will be no problems with them.