It is very important that the patient promptly seek medical help when all the joints of the body hurt, 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 gradually wear out. 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 that several groups of joints begin to hurt at the same time, and how to deal with this problem?
Risk factors
There are several risk factors that can lead to the disease. One of the most common is heredity. If, for example, a grandmother and a mother suffered from several groups of joints at the same time, then sooner or later this problem may arise in subsequent generations.
Gender is another risk factor. It has been observed that among women, joint diseases are several times more common than among 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 are "protected" by their own female sex hormones. With age, their number begins to decrease inexorably, and after they practically disappear, there is no one to protect a woman, and the joints begin to gradually deform and collapse. In men, this problem practically does not arise. Therefore, the joints, due to a violation of the hormonal background, hurt them somewhat less often than in women.
In men, joint pain occurs mainly due to heavy physical labor. This is due to the fact that they are constantly under heavy load. Gradually, the cartilage begins to wear out, the joints themselves become inflamed and at the same time deform.
People who often suffer from a disease such as tonsillitis may complain that their joints begin to hurt. This is due to the fact that the bacteria that cause angina can also adversely affect joints, especially large ones.
The causes and treatment of pain in all joints of the body are closely interrelated.
Causes of joint pain
Often, patients ask their attending physicians 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, osteoblasts, help renew bone tissue. And the second group, osteoclasts, is directly involved in the destruction of the bone. With age, the joints are broken more and more, so by 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. Injuries to the joints can also lead to the fact that the disease begins to develop. This problem can also occur in athletes who are professionally involved in sports. Most often this is due to the fact that during intensive training, the cartilage at the joints wears out quickly.
Infectious diseases and their complications quite 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 those people who have some problems with being overweight.
Some are wondering if there is a relationship between malnutrition and joint disease throughout the body? Experts unequivocally declare: yes, and the most direct! Improper nutrition, which consists in excessive consumption of fried, fatty, spicy foods and alcohol-containing drinks, leads to metabolic disorders. As a result, a large amount of a substance such as uric acid begins to form in the body. Its excess is just deposited on the joints. This leads to the fact that almost all joints and the spine begin to hurt in a person.
Long-term use of certain hormonal drugs, especially glucocorticosteroids, leads to the gradual destruction of the joints. In this case, the lesion covers mainly large groups of joints. Most often, the hips, knees, wrists and the entire spine are affected. At the same time, pains in the whole body, including the back, are so intense that it is very difficult to remove them with conventional anti-inflammatory painkillers.
Sharp pain can occur when a person, when 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 made not only on the basis of the patient's complaints, his examination, but also on the results of these laboratory and other additional examination methods. 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.
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 an immunological blood test can also become informative, it allows you to identify antibodies that are produced against the cells of the joints of your body.
Treatment of diseases
Treatment of diseases should begin after the exact causes of their occurrence are established.
Since pain is basically what makes a person see a doctor, the first thing to do in any case is pain relief. Conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can help with this.
Very often, the disease is accompanied by fever, pain and aches 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 immunomodulators is necessary.
Non-drug methods should include such therapeutic measures as massage and physiotherapy exercises. But it must be borne in mind that during their conduct, the patient should practically not feel pain.
If the cause of the disease is heavy physical exertion, then experts recommend using, for example, elastic bandages before it, which will reduce the impact of stress on the joints.
Preventive measures
In order to save your joints, you must constantly protect them and engage in 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 carefully monitor their weight, since excess weight is a direct path to deforming 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 do not hurt.
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, thereby causing severe pain, and the joints begin to deform.
If you carefully monitor your joints, then there will be no problems with them.