It is very important that the patient promptly consult a doctor when all the joints of the body are injured, the cause, their treatment is established only by a specialist. Your doctor will analyze your symptoms and tell you where to go. With age, human joints begin to wear out gradually. Therefore, in most cases, complaints of pain are made by patients of advanced age. But in some cases, young people can also complain about it. What is the reason why several groups of joints start to hurt at the same time and how to deal with this problem?
Risk factors
Several risk factors can lead to the disease. One of the most common is heredity. If, for example, several groups of joints hurt at the same time in a grandmother and a mother, this problem may arise sooner or later in subsequent generations.
Gender is another risk factor. It has been observed that in women, joint diseases are several times more common than in men. In this case, women are more likely to get sick 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 inexorably decrease, and after their disappearance practically there is no one to protect a woman, and the joints begin to deform and gradually collapse. In men, this problem practically does not arise. Therefore, the joints, due to a violation of the hormonal background, injure them a little less often than in women.
In men, joint pain mainly occurs due to heavy physical work. This is due to the fact that they are constantly under heavy load. Gradually, the cartilage begins to wear out, the joints themselves inflame and deform at the same time.
People who often suffer from a disease such as tonsillitis may complain that their joints begin to ache. This is because the bacteria that cause angina can also harm the joints, especially the larger ones.
The causes and treatment of pain in all joints of the body are closely related.
Causes of joint pain
Often patients ask their attending physician why almost all 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, the osteoblasts, help renew bone tissue. And the second group, the osteoclasts, are directly involved in the destruction of bone. With age, the joints break more and more, so with old age they are deformed and destroyed. This is the main reason why in older people the joints and the spine begin to hurt 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 hurt in a person at once. Joint damage can also lead to the development of the disease. This problem can also occur in athletes who are professionally involved in sports. Most often this is due to the fact that during intense training the cartilage in the joints quickly wears out.
Infectious diseases and their complications often lead to joint pain throughout the body and back.
Very often, the diagnosis of polyarthritis, that is, inflammation of several groups of joints, is made to people who have problems with being overweight.
Some wonder if there is a relationship between malnutrition and joint disease throughout the body? The experts declare unequivocally: yes, and the most direct! Poor nutrition, which consists of excessive consumption of fried, fatty, spicy foods and drinks containing alcohol, leads to metabolic disorders. As a result, a large amount of such a substance as uric acid begins to form in the body. Its excess is deposited on the joints. This leads to the fact that almost all joints and the spine begin to ache in a person.
Long-term use of certain hormonal drugs, especially glucocorticosteroids, leads to the progressive destruction of the joints. In this case, the lesion mainly covers large groups of joints. Most often the hips, knees, wrists and the entire spine are affected. At the same time, the pains throughout the body, including the back, are so intense that it is very difficult to eliminate them with conventional anti-inflammatory painkillers.
Sharp pain can occur when a person, falling on his back, hits the surface of the body of the vertebrae. 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 varied. Therefore, before prescribing drug therapy, it is necessary to establish what led to the lesion in this case.
The diagnosis of the disease is established not only on the basis of the patient's complaints, his examination, but also on the results of these laboratory methods and other additional methods of examination. The most informative method for diagnosing diseases of all joints and spine is X-ray. Another method to confirm or refute the diagnosis is computed tomography.
Among 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 an immunological blood test can also become informative, it allows you to identify the antibodies that are produced against the cells in the joints of your body.
Treatment of diseases
Treatment of diseases should begin after the exact causes of their occurrence have been established.
Since pain basically forces a person to see a doctor, the first thing to do in any case is to relieve the pain. Conventional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can help with this.
Very 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 not only affects the joints, but the whole body. For its treatment, the appointment of immunomodulators is necessary.
Non-drug methods should include therapeutic measures such as massage and physiotherapy exercises. But it should be borne in mind that during their implementation the patient should practically not feel pain.
If the cause of the disease is heavy physical exertion, experts recommend using, for example, front elastic bandages, which will reduce the impact of stress on the joints.
Preventive measures
In order to save your joints, you must constantly protect them and undertake preventive work. After all, it is not in vain that people agree with the statement 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 a disease such as tonsillitis. And she, in turn, can give complications. And in itself, hypothermia can lead to inflammation of several groups of joints at once.
Both women and men need to watch their weight carefully, as being overweight is a direct pathway to deforming osteoarthritis of at least the knee and hip joints. Both 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 do not hurt.
Additionally, you need to watch your drinking regimen. It is known that the average adult needs to drink at least two liters of liquid per day. In this case, the synovial joint fluid is constantly updated. If there is not enough fluid, the cartilage begins to rub, causing severe pain and the joints begin to deform.
If you watch your joints carefully, they won't cause any problems.