Joint pains can occur to a person of any age and the main cause is often an old wound of the bone. The most affective home remedy for this ailment is hot compression. This can easily be done by mixing common salt with Luke warm water and soaking a soft cloth in the concoction. After rinsing this warm cloth should be placed at the affected area and it should remain there till the cloth is warm. A hot water bath is also very effective in joint pains. The structure of the bone is such that scalding hot water would have the opposite affect; so one should be careful in that.