What Causes Joint Pains?
There is no single answer to the question what causes joint pains because there are so many different possibilities ranging from arthritis to gout to old age. One of the main causes in people that do not have a specific illness is simply being overweight. Carrying around too much weight can have a very detrimental effect on your entire body and especially on your joints. Your skeleton and your joints are in proportion to your body size so if you increase your normal body weight to level that is totally out of proportion with your joint size it will place an undue amount of stress on them and frequently this can lead to joint pains. The joints are cushioned against each other by your cartilage and if there is too much weight placed on them then this can wear the cartridge down to a thin level or completely all the way through allowing the bones to wear away at each other and cause a great deal of pain. Reducing your weight if you are too heavy might help with any joint pains you may cur
