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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 03, 2018, 03:05:43 pm

Title: 10 Causes of Body Aches That Have Nothing to Do With Getting Old
Post by: rangerrebew on August 03, 2018, 03:05:43 pm

10 Causes of Body Aches That Have Nothing to Do With Getting Old

That bad cold or new barre class can cause similar types of pain.

By Anisa Arsenault   
Jul 31, 2018


While you probably know whether a bad cold or that new barre class spurred your aching joints or muscles, you might be wondering how totally different things can provoke similar types of pain.

The answer, usually, is through inflammation.

“There’s a process of inflammation that occurs when the body has an infection, and some of the inflammatory mediators that we use to fight the infection cause fever and body aches,” says Erich Voigt, MD, an otolaryngologist at NYU Langone Health.

https://www.prevention.com/health/a22586222/body-aches-causes/ (https://www.prevention.com/health/a22586222/body-aches-causes/)