Causes

Causes of joint pain include:

• Adult Still's disease
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue due to limited blood flow)
• Bone cancer
• Broken bone
• Bursitis (joint inflammation)
• Complex regional pain syndrome (chronic pain due to a dysfunctional nervous system)
• Dislocation
• Fibromyalgia
• Gonococcal arthritis
• Gout (arthritis related to excess uric acid)
• Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (formerly known as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis)
• Leukemia
• Lupus
• Lyme disease
• Osteoarthritis (disease causing the breakdown of joints)
• Osteomyelitis (a bone infection)
• Paget's disease of bone
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Pseudogout
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Reactive arthritis
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory joint disease)
• Rickets
• Sarcoidosis (collections of inflammatory cells in the body)
• Septic arthritis
• Sprains
• Tendinitis