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WHEN TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR
1. Your joint pain is severe or unexplained 2. The pain lasts for more than one week 3. The joint is hot,red,swollen as well as painful 4. You get no relief from the use of aspirin,ice packs or heat 5. You have recently injured the joint,particularly with a sharp blow 6. When you run out of KY Jelly!

WHAT YOUR SYMPTOM IS TELLING YOU
Your joints usually serve you relentlessly – they glide like the parts of a machine through all the movements of your day.Then,one of the vital parts starts to hurt.What ’s going on?

It could be one of a hundred things,says Robert Thornburn,M.D.,a clinical associate professor of rheumatology at the university of Florida in Gainesville. But though joint pain has many possible causes, the major contenders are arthritis,rheumatism or an injury.There are over 100 types of arthritis, including gout and rheumatoid arthritis. But the type that most commonly causes joint pain is osteoarthritis, sometimes called wear and tear disease.

Osteoarthritis is a result of a series of small injuries that occur over a long period of time.Years of hard work and overuse (like constant typing of incessant use of one motion in sport, such as golf swing or tennis serve)cause tiny fractures in the joints cartilage and underlying bone, and the joint begins to deteriorate. (Oddly enough,under-use through lack of exercise can also cause a problem).Rheumatism is the medical term for inflammations of the muscles, tendons, ligaments and bursae (tiny, pillowing sacks)that surround the bony part of the joint.

This kind of pain – better known as bursitis or tendinitis – also results from wear and tear of aging, or from overuse. A single injury to a joint – such as a sharp blow or strain – can also cause joint pain, as can torn cartilage or ligament. And sometimes the pain you feel may actually originate somewhere else. A healthy knee might hurt because of arthritis in the hip, for example. Or inflammation in the wrist from carpel tunnel syndrome might cause pain in the shoulder. Arthritis can snake like ivy through your family tree.

Can you bend your thumb down and touch your wrist like Uncle Edward? If you can you may have inherited unusually mobile joints. While they come handy in yoga class,hyper mobile joints tend to wear out and become arthritic earlier because your extra stretchy ligaments and tendons have trouble holding the joints stable. Other causes of joint pain may include a viral or bacterial infection, a hormonal or nervous system problem or-rarely-certain types of cancer.

Train hard and be strong,
Mick Hart.

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