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What disease affects bones and muscles?

What disease affects bones and muscles?

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are conditions that can affect your muscles, bones, and joints….MSDs include:

  • tendinitis.
  • carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • osteoarthritis.
  • rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
  • fibromyalgia.
  • bone fractures.

What diseases affect joints and muscles?

Multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and polymyalgia rheumatica are three types of autoimmune disorders that affect the muscles, joints, and nerves. Autoimmune disorders occur when the body’s own immune system goes haywire and starts attacking healthy tissue.

What diseases cause bone and joint pain?

Causes of joint pain include:

  • Adult Still’s disease.
  • Ankylosing spondylitis.
  • Avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue due to limited blood flow)
  • Bone cancer.
  • Broken bone.
  • Bursitis (joint inflammation)
  • Complex regional pain syndrome (chronic pain due to a dysfunctional nervous system)
  • Dislocation.

What is the most common muscle disease?

One of the most common among types of muscle diseases is muscular dystrophy. This disease is related to the weakness in the muscular-skeletal system.

What causes bone disease?

BONE DISEASES CAUSES. Some bone diseases are elusive to their causes. While causative factors vary by disease, many bone diseases are caused by genetic factors, viral infection, chemical abnormalities, and a lack of bone collagen , injuries, fractures, damage to blood vessels, excessive use of alcohol, or the long term use of certain medications.

What are some rare skeletal diseases?

Another rare bone disease is called Paget’s disease and itinvolves the growth of bones which are simply too large and too weak for theirown size. Other rare bone diseases include primary hyperparathyroidism and XLH.

What is the difference between joint pain and bone pain?

Even though bone pain and joint pains occur in the musculoskeletal system, they are two different conditions. Bone pain usually originates inside the bone while joint pain occurs at the connections between two bones.