Muscle Pain

Muscle Pain is generally muscle injury from exercise or physically-demanding work or sometimes due to tension or overuse of the body. Muscle Pain can also cause conditions that affect your whole body, like infections (including the flu) and disorders that affect connective tissues throughout the body (such as lupus).

Muscle Pain Back can be a result of problems in the bony lumbar spine, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, muscles of the low back, internal organs of the pelvis and abdomen, and the skin covering the lumbar area. Pains in the upper back can also be a result of disorders of the aorta, chest tumors, and inflammation of the spine.

Muscle pain is often less intense than that of bone pain but can be very unpleasant. For example, a muscle spasm or cramp (a sustained painful muscle contraction) in the calf is an intense pain that is commonly called a charleyhorse. Pain in muscles can appear when a muscle is affected by an injury, an autoimmune reaction (for example, polymyositis or dermatomyositis) and loss of blood flow to the muscle, infection, or invasion by a tumor.

The most common joint muscle pain is a disease called Systemic Lupus Erythematosis. Muscle Joint Pain can occur in any part of the body - hips, shoulders and knees are more prone to this ailment. Excess body weight adds to the woes of patients suffering from these pains.