65% of them complain of knee pain. This is followed by shoulder and hip pain, but joint pain can affect any part of your body, from your ankles and feet to your shoulders and hands. Many different conditions can lead to painful joints, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, gout, strains, sprains, and other injuries. As you get OLDER, painful joints become increasingly more common.1
Causes and risk2
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Age
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Joint injury
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Joint malformation
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Genetic defect
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Overweight
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Jobs that stress particular joints
An obese person is 14x more likely to develop knee pain than someone of normal weight.3
Joint pain scale4
Joint pain can range from mildly irritating to debilitating
