In today’s society, with the improvement of people’s living standard, people’s health consciousness is also increasing, when our body has pain and various discomfort symptoms, we often want to go to the formal hospital for consultation and treatment in order to improve the quality of life, but when facing the cumbersome medical procedures and the possible high medical costs and risks of surgery, we are discouraged, especially when the pain in the joint area, affecting our daily activities, so that we can not walk like a healthy person. Especially when the pain in the joints affects our daily activities, so that we cannot walk like healthy people, but can only hobble and walk alone in the midst of people’s strange eyes, who can understand our inner conflicts and tangles. In fact, most of the diseases that cause joint pain do not require surgery and do not need to carry so much heavy baggage, as long as we can correctly understand joint pain and treat it correctly, many joint pains can be cured and returned to a healthy body. The following is an introduction to several common diseases and treatments that cause joint pain: a. Degenerative arthropathy, also known as hypertrophic arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoarthritis, etc., which is commonly referred to as “long bone spurs”. Symptoms appear mostly after the age of 40, the onset of the disease increases with age, and the incidence of women is higher than that of men. It is caused by degenerative changes in bone and joint tissues, i.e., damage to the cartilage surfaces of the joints due to prolonged activity and exposure of subchondral bone. Degenerative arthropathy occurs in weight-bearing and active joints, such as the hip, knee, lumbar and cervical spine. The pain symptoms of the joints are initially dull, diffuse or joint soreness and swelling, which can be relieved by rest after activity; as the disease develops, rest pain (i.e. pain even when inactive, relieved by appropriate activity, and aggravated by excessive activity) may appear, accompanied by joint stiffness and enlargement, and in the late stage, a sense of friction in joint activity, joint weakness, and joint deformity and activity impairment. x-rays mainly show “bone spurs” or labral changes, and narrowing of the joint gap. The treatment for this disease is in a stepwise manner: early treatment mainly consists of avoiding excessive activity and weight bearing, local rest of the joint and heat therapy, infrared light, herbal fumigation and hot water baths to relieve joint pain. If treatment is ineffective at this point, you will need to go to a regular hospital and be treated with oral medication or local intra-articular injections under the guidance of a doctor. When the disease has progressed to an advanced stage and conservative treatment is ineffective, minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery is feasible if necessary. The surgery of joint replacement should be delayed as much as possible, which is equivalent to extending the service life of artificial joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic immune disease of unknown etiology, most of which develops in young adults and continues to develop after middle age. The disease causes symmetrical onset of multiple joints in the extremities. The most commonly affected joints are the small joints of both hands (finger and metacarpal joints), wrists, knees and feet, especially the proximal phalanges, which are swollen and symmetrical in both hands. The pain and stiffness of the joints are usually most pronounced in the morning, with increased activity, the pain and stiffness are gradually relieved, and the symptoms are aggravated by excessive activity and exposure to cold. If the onset of the disease is chronic, early treatment requires avoiding excessive movement of the joints and hot and cold stimulation. If the symptoms are not relieved after 6 weeks or if the disease starts acutely, it is necessary to go to a regular hospital for blood tests and imaging examinations. Minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery is feasible in the middle and late stages. Those who have repeatedly failed to receive conservative treatment can receive further surgery. Gouty arthritis Gout is a disease caused by disorders of purine metabolism in the human body. It is characterized by acute joint pain, local redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction, especially in the bunions and their metatarsophalangeal joints of the feet, ankles and wrists. The disease is mainly caused by the intake of large amounts of purine-containing foods, which are metabolized to form uric acid and not excreted by the body in time, resulting in the deposition of uric acid in the vicinity of the joints, causing painful symptoms, which can recur and eventually lead to bone destruction and joint deformity and movement disorders. The main foods that trigger gout are: animal offal, seafood, beer and some soy products. If the disease is chronic, bed rest and diet control are needed to reduce or eliminate the intake of such foods, and oral alkaline drugs such as baking soda can be taken to promote uric acid excretion, but if the attack is acute or subacute, hospital visits are needed to conduct blood uric acid tests and imaging examinations, and internal medication should be administered under medical supervision. IV. Traumatic arthritis Traumatic arthritis is caused by trauma or multiple repeated injuries, mainly manifested as joint pain, swelling, impaired movement and deformity, which can be incapacitated in the late stage and is a secondary injury disease. Supraspinatus tendonitis is one of the common causes of shoulder pain. The pain increases during upper arm abduction and internal rotation, and the shoulder joint movement is greatly restricted. Shoulder joint periarthritis (frozen shoulder) is a common cause of shoulder pain in middle-aged and elderly people. The shoulder pain starts slowly, the shoulder pain and stiffness gradually worsen, and the shoulder joint function is significantly impaired. If you have an obvious history of trauma, you can take medicine for the injury, and you can apply pain relief cream to the painful joint, or you can use Chinese herbal fumigation. If the pain is limited and fixed, physical therapy or local closure can be used. Tui na is also effective in treating traumatic arthritis. In case of rotator cuff injury, it is necessary to go to the hospital for consultation and treatment, and if necessary, arthroscopy. In summary, these are the common diseases that cause joint pain in our daily life, and we can find that most of them can be treated satisfactorily with conservative treatment such as medication and local closure in the early or middle stage. In addition, the development of minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques has largely avoided the pain of surgery and the high cost of medical treatment. The key is to establish a proper understanding of joint pain and not to avoid treatment, as there are many other diseases that can cause joint pain that are not listed, such as joint tumors, joint tuberculosis, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and so on. Although these diseases are not common, they can also cause joint pain and dysfunction, and in serious cases, they can be life-threatening and need to be treated in a regular hospital as soon as possible.