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Joint pain

• Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis happens when the cartilage in your joints breaks down causing pain, stiffness, and swelling.


• Tendinitis

Tendinitis symptoms include muscle and tendon pain or stiffness close to a joint, and pain with movement.


• Repetitive motion injuries

Repetitive motion injuries can cause numbness, tingling, and weakness in a hand, arm, leg, or foot.


• Pseudogout

Pseudogout is a type of arthritis similar to gout, where crystals form in the joints, causing swelling and pain.


• Septic arthritis

Septic arthritis, a joint infection, causes severe pain, swelling, redness, and warmth in the joint and fever.


• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

A slipped capital femoral epiphysis can cause knee pain, walking with a limp, hip pain, and more.


• Stress fractures

Stress fractures are small breaks that usually occur in the feet or leg bones, causing pain and swelling.


• Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is a rare disease that can cause swelling and hard lumps in the lymph nodes and organs.


• Sickle cell crisis

Sickle cell crisis causes sudden pain, shortness of breath, low grade fever, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.


• Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease symptoms include repeated infections, yellow skin, fatigue, dizziness, pain, and more.


• Sporotrichosis

Sporotrichosis is a fungal infection that can cause painless bumps on the fingers, hands, and arms.


• Psoriatic arthritis

Psoriatic arthritis most often causes swelling and joint pain in the fingers and toes.


• Obesity

Obesity is having too much body fat, marked by a BMI of 30 or higher.


• Osteochondritis dessicans

Osteochondritis dissecans is a joint problem that causes pain, swelling, and a locked up joint.


• Knee strain

A knee strain is a stretch or tear of a muscle or of a tendon and causes pain, swelling, and bruising.


• Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease and causes fever, joint pain, abdominal pain, rash, and more.


• Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes pain, swelling, and joint damage.


• Ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis causes swelling in the large intestine and can lead to cramping, diarrhea, and more.


• Bursitis (pre-patellar)

Prepatellar bursitis, a swelling of the bursa in front of the kneecap, causes pain, redness, and stiffness.


• Knee meniscus tear

A meniscus tear, damage to a piece of cartilage in the knee, causes pain and swelling.


• Dislocated knee

Symptoms of knee or kneecap dislocations include pain and swelling in the knee, stiffness, and deformity.


• Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus)

Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease marked by swollen painful joints, a rash, swollen lymph nodes, and more.


• Osgood-Schlatter disease

Osgood-Schlatter disease causes a painful swollen bump on the shin below the knee.


• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or JRA is a long-term disease that causes pain and swelling in children's joints


• Lyme disease

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through tick bites; symptoms include rash, fever chills, and more.


• ACL knee injury

An ACL injury happens when you tear or overstretch the anterior collateral ligament on the inside of the knee.


• Patellofemoral pain syndrome

Many people with pain around the kneecap have patellofemoral pain syndrome.


• Gout

Gout is a buildup of uric acid in the joints, causing joint pain, fever, and hot, red, swollen joints.


• Crohn's disease

Crohn's disease is a digestive condition that causes swelling, cramping, diarrhea, and nutritional problems.


• Henoch-schonlein purpura

Henoch-Sch�nlein purpura is a condition that causes a purple bruise-like rash on the legs and buttocks.


• Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury

A posterior cruciate ligament injury causes pain, swelling, weakness and instability of the knee.



• Shingles (herpes zoster)

Shingles is a painful, blistering, skin rash typically found on the back and sides of the chest.