Health Tip: Managing Joint Pain

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(HealthDay News) -- Joint pain can keep you from exercising, feeling good and performing everyday activities.

It may be triggered by factors including illness, exercise or overuse injury.

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The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers general guidelines for how to combat joint pain:

• Always follow your doctor's treatment plan.
• When possible, give your joints a rest.
• Gentle stretching exercises also may help ease joint pain.
• Take a warm bath, or get a massage.
• Take an anti-inflammatory drug, but be sure to discuss it with your doctor first, especially if the person with joint pain is a child.

-- Diana Kohnle