JOINT PAIN
Cause & Prevention
Intoduction
Knee pain can make your walking difficult. Shoulder pain can prevent your overhead activities. Elbow pain can trouble your daily routine work.
Pain in joint can trouble you physically, mentally and socially. Though it is disturbing to have joint pain, you should understand that:
Pain is never a problem in itself.
Joint pain is named based on involved joint. Like, pain in shoulder is called shoulder pain, pain in elbow is called elbow pain, pain in knee is called knee pain and so on.
Not All Shoulder Pain Is Frozen Shoulder.
But, we need to understand pain in more details. Shoulder pain can be due to Rotator Cuff Tear, generally known as RCT or can be due to frozen shoulder( also known as peri-arthritic shoulder) or other structure involvement. Also, every symptoms are associated with some changes in structure due to change in regular activities.
Pain is just a response from your body that it can not take changes any more.
Causes
Every joint has its own specific function and beautifully designed structure to meet the function. Any changes in structure or function of joint which is not a normal changes can lead to pain and other associated symptoms.
Pain is just a response from your body indicating that it can not take changes any more.
Changes can be due to accident, sudden jerk or abnormal movement in daily activities. Repetitive action or movement is also one of the major cause behind joint pain. For example; Out Swing bowler has repetitive jerk at wrist, rotation at elbow and shoulder.
Muscle injury can be of two basic types, pull injury or push injury.
We have discussed Muscle Injury in details. Click Here.
Prevention
Don’t blame yourself that other are fine and why can you do same movement without pain. You have just missed to train your joint and surrounding structure. We have got few patient telling:
“Even after going for walk and doing yoga regularly, why my joint still have pain.
The answer is simple that you have added extra “S” in your training that is actually straining.
All you need to do is before starting any new physical activities, do exercises to make your body ready for that activities. New physical activities in term of movement direction or pattern, its speed or the rate of movement.
Just like warm up exercise before weight training. You make your particular muscle and surrounding structure ready before giving extra load.
Still if you find difficult, take online consultation or come down to our nearby clinic. You can also call us at 8080105108 for more details.