Joint pain can be caused by injury or disease affecting any of the ligaments, bursae, or tendons surrounding the joint. Injury or disease can also affect the ligaments, cartilage, and bones within the joint, leading to a painful joint. Pain is also a feature of joint inflammation and infection and can be a feature of rare tumors of the joint.

Joint pain is a common complaint. It doesn’t typically require a hospital visit. Sometimes,joint pain is the result of an illness or injury. Arthritis is also a common cause of joint pain.

Chronic polyarthritis is most often caused by juvenile idiopathic arthritis in children and chronic polyarthralgia is most often caused by osteoarthritis and RA in adults. Acute polyarticular arthritis is most often due to infection, gout, or a flare of a systemic inflammatory disease.

Joints are the parts of your body where your bones meet. Joints allow the bones of your skeleton to move. Joints include:

• shoulders
• hips
• elbows
• knees

Joint pain refers to discomfort, aches, and soreness in any of the body’s joints. Joint pain is a common complaint. It doesn’t typically require a hospital visit. Sometimes, joint pain is the result of an illness or injury. Arthritis is also a common cause of joint pain. However, it can also be due to other conditions or factors.