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Joint Pains Underlying Cause
Common causes for joint pains include:
- Bursitis
- Influenza
- Injuries:
- Sports
- Occupational
- Falls
- Overuse
- Ligament sprains
- Osteoarthritis
- Synovitis
- Tendinitis
- Viral syndrome
- Osteoporosis
Less common causes for joint pains include:
- Adult Still's disease
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Autoimmune disease
- Celiac disease
- Chronic hepatitis C
- Crohn's disease
- Decompression sickness
- Dengue fever
- Depression
- Dermatomyositis
- Disseminated gonorrhea infection
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Ehrlichiosis
- Erythema multiforme
- Erythema nodosum
- Felty's syndrome
- Gout
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemophilia
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Hypopituitarism
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Lead poisoning
- Leukemia
- Lupus
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Paget's disease
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pseudogout
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reiter's syndrome
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Scleroderma
- Septic arthritis
- Sickle cell anemia
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Syphilis
- Tick borne illness
- Trichinosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever
- Ulcerative colitis
- Wilson's disease
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- Yersiniosis
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Last Updated: Feb 3, 2011 References
Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD
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