Our body is a vulnerable and sensitive thing. Increasingly, not only in the elderly, but also in young people, it will shoot here, then it will prick there. Jokes are bad with he alth, and all problems that arise with it must be solved as efficiently and quickly as possible. One of these problems, by the way, is quite common, are wandering pains in the joints. What is it and how to deal with it?
What does wandering pain mean?
First of all, let's get acquainted with the term. What do they mean when they talk about wandering pain?
Synonymous with the verb "wander" are words such as "wander", "stray". Wander through the forest - wander between trees and paths, look for a way out, but not find it. This is how pain wanders in the human body - and cannot find a way out. In other words, this is a periodic pain that either suddenly appears and worries its owner, or just as spontaneously and for no reason goes out, so as not to remind of itself for some time, and then reappear with renewed vigor. Also, such pains are sometimes calledmigratory - because they do not linger in one place, but move, "migrate" through the body.
The causes of wandering pains throughout the body are not reliably known to either patients or even doctors. Many representatives of the science of Hippocrates are generally baffled by this phenomenon. Some people tend to believe that neuralgia is hidden behind all such things. Worth trying to figure it out…
Where wandering pains may occur
All over the body - as already noted above. And depending on the organ in which they appeared, it is possible to diagnose a particular disease. Wandering joint pains are the most common - we will return to this issue later. In addition, a similar ailment can grab both the back (in this case, we are talking about pinching the nerve endings of the spinal column, which causes circulatory disorders and spasms of nearby muscles), and the stomach (the cause of this is, as a rule, diseases of the internal organs - hepatitis, pancreatitis and the like), and the head (here it is important to understand what part of the head we are talking about: in the back of the head (most often the pain occurs there), wandering pains can be the result of a pinched cervical nerve, which, in turn, is due to osteochondrosis, myositis and other similar unpleasant sores; pain in the frontal part of the head is less common, but if it does happen, it can signal a brain infection, banal osteochondrosis, pressure, and even a tumor.
It's all the fault of the vegetative?
It was already mentioned above thatmany doctors believe that neuralgia is the cause of wandering pains. At the same time, some seriously recommend visiting a psychotherapist - they say, he alone can fix the problem for sure. Here's why.
Many of us are familiar with such a nuisance as vegetovascular dystonia: blurred vision, severe headaches, dizziness to fainting, lack of air, pressure drops, heart palpitations, pain in the heart and so on. It turns out that the vegetative system is subdivided into two more, which have different, or rather, even opposite, functions: one speeds up the heartbeat, the other slows it down, one increases the pressure, the other lowers it - and so on. According to the supporters of the theory that we are now presenting, our well-being is normal when these two subsystems of the autonomic system exist in balance. As soon as the vegetative system begins to "naughty", and as a result of a failure between these subsystems, the balance is disturbed, the person's well-being deteriorates sharply, including wandering pains. And you can go around many specialists for a long time and methodically, do various procedures, take tests to find out, for example, why your head hurts so much sometimes. All doctors will only shrug their shoulders - after all, according to all indicators, a person will be he althy; and only a psychotherapist will be able to draw the right conclusion and select the necessary complex treatment.
How to relate to this theory is a personal matter for everyone, but next we will look at other likely causes of wandering pain inlegs, arms and other joints.
Joint pain: what, what and why
Wandering pains in the joints and muscles, perhaps, cause the greatest discomfort - neither bend nor straighten, any movement causes pain. There may be several reasons for this, but before talking about them, it is necessary to identify the signs accompanying these pains.
Signs of wandering pain in joints and muscles
The signs of such diseases should primarily include their inflammatory nature. They are stronger in the morning than in the evening, and if you give a load, they will pass. This applies to both joint pain and muscle pain. These unpleasant sensations can last from several hours to several days in a row, and disappear, as a rule, as already mentioned, without a trace, as abruptly as they appeared.
All these signs indicate such unpleasant diseases as arthralgia or arthritis. Let's give a brief description of both sores.
Arthralgia and arthritis: similarities and differences
That arthritis, that arthralgia is a lesion of the joints, but there are significant differences between them. If a person suffers from arthritis, this can be recognized by additional symptoms that accompany the disease: redness, swelling of the tissues, lack of performance in this joint. Arthralgia does not have such signs - on the contrary, there are no pronounced symptoms of the disease, as well as any changes on the x-ray. Also, arthralgia usually affects one joint, while wandering pains in the joints of several indicate the developmentarthritis. In addition, arthralgia often appears as the first bell, a precursor to arthritis - however, in fairness, it should still be noted that this does not always happen: sometimes, if no changes in the joints occur during arthralgia, it remains simply by itself, an independent disease.
Often, arthralgia occurs in those people who suffer from disorders of the immune system. Arthritis can be either acute or chronic. It usually worsens at night, with a smooth flow into the morning. May be a manifestation of rheumatism. At the same time, arthritis, as a rule, affects middle-aged women - from thirty-five to fifty years old, and in general it does not occur so often. Let's try to figure out why these ailments appear and, accordingly, what is the cause of wandering pain in the joints.
And if so, then we will talk about such a variety of diseases as rheumatoid arthritis. It should be treated as early as possible, because if the disease is started, inflammation can cause irreversible processes in the body, leading to absolute deformation of the joints of the hands and joints of the legs. Wandering pains in them are a serious indicator that you need to urgently go to a specialist. Otherwise, you can easily become disabled. Why there is pain
There are several possible causes of wandering pain in the joints and muscles, and they are all rheumatoid in nature. It could be fibromyalgia - if it's in the muscles (chronic muscle pain all over the body, oftenaccompanied by depression, loss of sleep or poor sleep, indigestion, weather dependence, fatigue, sleep apnea and other symptoms); as well as arthritis of various kinds (rheumatoid - the most frequent, reactive - the most painless, Still's disease - a childhood form; gouty - begins due to problems with metabolism; tuberculous; gonorrheal; allergic and traumatic) - this is part of the joints, and systemic red lupus is a lesion of connective tissue throughout the body (a rash on the face in the form of a butterfly is also characteristic). These causes are the most common "pathogens" of wandering joint pain, but not the only ones: various diseases of the immune system, as mentioned earlier, can also cause them.
In addition, some past infectious diseases can lead to such a result as wandering pain in the joints of the arms, legs, and so on. Therefore, if such pains arise, one should initially remember whether any of the following have recently been transferred: influenza, brucellosis, encephalitis, toxoplasmosis, cysticercosis, trichinosis, enterovirus diseases.
A few words about Still's disease
I would like to say separately about Still's disease - a childhood form of arthritis, because wandering pain in this case is not the main symptom that you first of all pay attention to. Here, a fever with a very high temperature comes to the fore, and migrating pain occurs just against its background. Most often, the hands and feet are affected, but it happens thatthe jaw is also affected. This kind of disease is typical for children and adolescents from seven to fifteen years. It is interesting that the causes of the appearance of reactive arthritis are known to modern Hippocrates (usually this is a reaction to an infection - as a rule, in terms of urology or gastroenterology), but rheumatoid arthritis is not. There are only suggestions that factors such as metabolic or hormonal failure, trauma or overload, heredity, lack of vitamins, unhe althy diet and lifestyle, diabetes mellitus or tuberculosis can affect its occurrence.
Diagnosis and treatment of wandering joint and muscle pain
How to treat such an ailment directly depends on its causes, so the sooner they are found, the sooner it will be possible to part with the annoying pain. Basically, as a rule, physiotherapy, massage, bath treatment, mud treatment, special gymnastics, massage, hormonal drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, acupuncture and so on are prescribed. However, before embarking on any kind of treatment, it is still necessary to accurately diagnose what kind of disease “gave” the patient a whole bunch of “pleasant” symptoms. How to do it right?
First, you need to donate blood for analysis - it is called biochemical. Then undergo an examination on an x-ray machine and check the existing symptom. In fact, nothing complicated, but it is these actions that can tell the specialist what exactly is wrong with the patient's body.
If it so happens thatthe disease has passed into a chronic, severe stage, and no other ways to help are no longer able, surgery is performed. After it, a person must undergo a spa recovery and visit a sanatorium.
Treatment with folk remedies
Yes, yes, we should not forget about such methods. They are quite effective in the early stages of the disease. Of course, in a chronic, severe form, such methods will not be able to help, but, as they say, all means are good in war.
So, you can cope with the pain with the help of a cabbage leaf, heated and smeared with honey. This design must be applied to the diseased joint, and then wrapped tightly on top, previously secured with a bandage of gauze or bandage. It is best to do this at bedtime so that the joint is at rest for a long time.
Also among the folk methods - a variety of decoctions: from pine, lilac, dandelion, chestnut, strawberry and the like. And you can also mix ordinary chalk and kefir, apply the resulting mixture to the damaged joint, in the same way as in the above case, glue it on top and give the sore spot a rest. A similar method works well on knee joints.
Interesting facts about joints and muscles
- The joints hurt because they also have nerve endings.
- There are a lot of reasons for joint diseases. And no matter how strange and funny it may sound, even unheated food can cause this.
- If the joints are crunchy, it means that the bodynot enough calcium.
- The most mobile of all joints in the human body is the shoulder.
- In the morning a person is taller than in the evening, because during the day the joints are compressed.
- In the human body, according to various sources, from six hundred to eight hundred different muscles.
- The most enduring muscle is the heart.
- The shortest muscle is the stirrup muscle, which is located in the ear: it is only a little more than a millimeter!
- The facial muscles of a person and his emotions are closely interconnected.
- In order for the muscles to function at their best, you need to eat dark chocolate.
- Muscle is burned along with body fat.
- The blinking muscle is the fastest.
- Tongue is not a muscle, contrary to popular belief. In fact, this is a whole group of muscles.
- 40 percent of the human body consists of muscles, and 25 percent of their number is located not just anywhere, but on the face.
- Despite the fact that the most enduring muscle is recognized as the heart, the strongest of all muscles is the jaw.
- To take just one single step, a person must first contract and then relax more than two hundred muscles in his body.
- The back muscles take the most time to recover from injury, and the triceps take the least time.
Wandering pain in the leg or arm is just the first sign. Do not delay treatment. He alth to you!
