What is the relationship between weather and joint pain?

The relationship between weather and joint pain, often patients will report that they know when it’s going to rain because their knees or their shoulders or their hips may start hurting.  There does seem to be a scientific basis to this.  And that with weather change, the barometric pressure changes and as that pressure change precedes the actual weather change, the joint space is sensitive to the pressure change and may create an aching pain in advance for the weather change but in response to the barometric pressure change.

So the relationship of weather to arthritic pain – I’m not a weatherman or meteorologist.  But generally as I understand, before a cold front or weather change moves into an area, the pressure in the area changes, in other words the atmospheric pressure changes and usually that comes in before the weather change comes in.  So if you have an arthritic joint, it’s going to tend to sense that pressure change before the weather gets here.  And that’s why people say I can tell it’s going to rain because my knee hurts.  And so there’s probably a relationship between incoming weather changes and joint pain, so you may have a second career as a meteorologist or weatherman if you’re pretty accurate with your arthritic joint.