What causes joint pain in children?

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Children may complain of joint pain (arthralgia) as they grow. It may be caused by sports injuries or bacterial infection. Sometimes muscles aches known as growing pains are mistaken for joint pain. Symptoms related to diabetes, juvenile arthritis, and other diseases like vasculitis or Crohn's disease in children can cause joint pain and inflammation, too.

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What's your body trying to tell you?

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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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