Joints

The most common type of joint pain is osteoarthritis, which gradually deteriorates joint cartilage and most often affects weight-bearing joints like your knees and hips.

Rheumatoid arthritis is another common type, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in multiple joints, leading to pain, swelling, and joint damage.

Knee pain affects people of all ages—but that doesn’t mean it’s something you have to live with. Whether your pain is the result of an injury or a medical condition like arthritis, there are many targeted treatment options to address the underlying issues

Hip pain is another common complaint, and the precise location of your hip pain can provide valuable clues about the underlying cause. Problems within the hip joint itself tend to result in pain on the inside of your hip or your groin. Hip pain on the outside of your hip, upper thigh or outer buttock is usually caused by problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons and other soft tissues that surround your hip joint. Hip pain can sometimes be caused by diseases and conditions in other areas of your body, such as your lower back. This type of pain is called referred pain.

Joint pain that occurs in areas other than your knees or hips is often attributed to conditions like tennis elbow, a painful condition affecting the elbow joint due to overuse, temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ), which causes pain and discomfort in the jaw joint, leading to problems with chewing and speaking, or shoulder pain, which can be caused by an injury to or disease in the ligaments, bursae, cartilage, menisci, bones or the tendons that surround the shoulder joint.