Swollen finger joints are frequently the result of inflammation caused by an infection, injury, or disease. The swelling may be due to a chronic (persistent or recurrent) condition, like ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, which means that your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake, causing inflammation (painful swelling) in the ...

If your finger is not injured or infected, you may have a systemic condition that is causing joint swelling and pain. In such cases, it would be best to see a rheumatologist who specializes in ...

A pottery teacher has been given a new lease of life thanks to a new kind of surgery which saw her thumb joints replaced. Anna Stiles, 58, works full-time teaching pottery in her home studio in ...

Surgeons have grown new living finger joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Remarkable 'before and after' pictures of a hand of one of the patients show how the new joints helped to reduce ...

In addition, Alison has now performed over 100 thumb joint replacements using the new thumb joint implants - which mimic the joint’s natural movement. She is one of a few consultants in the UK ...

Early in the disease, RA tends to attack the small joints of your hands and feet. This can lead to several types of deformities, including: Ulnar drift. Your fingers lean away from your thumb and ...

Our primary purpose was to compare nonoperative treatment with surgical repair and surgical reconstruction of thumb UCL injuries. A secondary purpose was to compare graft choice and surgical ...

The aim of the follow up study was to monitor the course of erosions during treatment with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs by different modalities and to determine whether the radiographically ...

Amir, 37, gave the restaurant his seal of approval as he stuck a thumb up after delving into the tasty sandwich. Faryal, 32, ...