Knee and hip pain due to a sedentary lifestyle or work environment is common and most likely is associated with muscle imbalances and lack of flexibility. Consultation with your doctor and a health and fitness professional is critical for treatment and/or prevention of these problems.
Pain
Pain is your body telling you that you have hurt it. This is a good thing, important when you are injured. It can also help diagnose problems with your body. Sometimes pain continues long after it's necessary. Amputees report phantom pain in the legs or arms they no longer have.
There are different kinds of pain, and describing the type is useful in diagnosis: recurring, constant, steady, knife-like, radiating, sharp, dull. Medicines that dull pain are analgesics. Those that kill all feeling are anesthetics.
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See All 2 AnswersChronic & acute pain differ most in regards to onset and duration. Some basic questions that may be asked by your health care provider to help differentiate between acute & chronic pain include:
- When did the pain begin?
- How long have you been experiencing the pain?
- How do you rate the pain on a 1-10 scale (1 being least amount of pain and 10 being the worst pain) or using the FACES scale?
- Is the pain ever alleviated?
- Do you experience the pain ALL of the time?
- What aggravates the pain?
- What do you do to relieve the pain?
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Jumo Health answeredSee All 2 AnswersPain acts as a warning to protect your body from getting seriously hurt. In order to feel pain, your skin has danger receptors. For example, when you touch something too hot, a relay system is set up in your body. The danger receptors are called into action and release chemical messengers. The messengers carry the danger message along your nerves, all the way to your spinal cord and then along the spinal cord to your brain. When the message arrives, the brain decides if something needs to be done. It sounds an alarm (pain) and sends a pain message, so that you know which part of your body is hurting and what your body needs to do. All of this happens really quickly; so if you burn yourself, you feel pain almost right away. Although the pain can be intense at first, it fades quickly. When the messages disappear, it stops hurting.
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Englewood Community Hospital answeredNerve pain is a radiating sensation, muscle pain occurs in a generalized location and bone pain usually develops due to trauma.
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See All 3 AnswersBreast pain can be a symptom of breast cancer, but most breast pain is not caused by cancer. In fact, the vast majority of pains in the breast are not caused by cancer. And, when we look at large groups of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, most do not have pain. So, we can conclude the following:
- Most breast pain is not from cancer
- Most breast cancers do not hurt
But since some pain IS caused by cancer and some cancers DO hurt, any new breast pain should be reported to your doctor so he/she can thoroughly assess the situation to determine the cause of the pain and make sure there is not a cancer.
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Scripps Health answeredSee All 2 AnswersShoulder pain may come and go, depending on the time of day or type of activity. Some people may feel fine when their arm is resting at their side. However, as soon as they raise their elbow, they experience pain.
Shoulder pain that occurs primarily at night is of particular concern because it interferes with sleep and may be a symptom of larger health problems. If shoulder pain is not improving, or if the shoulder is unstable, stiff or frozen, see your physician.
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Intermountain Healthcare answeredYour child may be well enough to leave the hospital before all her pain is gone. These are things you can do:
- Give medications just as the doctor prescribes.
- Treat nausea. Some pain medications cause nausea and vomiting. Ask your doctor or nurse how to introduce foods in a way that prevents nausea.
- Feed your child healthy foods. Start with simple foods such as cooked cereal, applesauce and toast. Greasy foods (such as hamburgers or fries) can cause nausea.
- Treat constipation. Encourage your child to drink fluids and eat high-fiber foods such as whole-grain bread.
- Keep a normal routine. Help your child wake up, eat, bathe and do what she can at the times she normally does.
- Balance activity and rest. Help balance between normal activity and the rest she needs for recovery.
- Maintain the rules. Have your child keep the normal rules of your household. Have her do what is normally expected of her and other people in the house.
- Spend time together. As your child gets better and you move back into your normal routine, be sure to make time to be together and talk about what she's going through.
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The hip is made up of tendons, ligaments, bone muscle and nerve endings. Many things can cause you to feel hip pain. The most common cause is osteoarthritis. Other causes include:- hip bursitis
- arthritis around the hip
- avascular necrosis
- trauma
- rheumatoid arthritis
- sciatica
- herniated disc