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 ...

It sounds strange, but the length of your pinky finger length could say quite a lot about you and your personality type, from your habits to the way you handle relationships. The practice of using 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 ...

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 ...

Similarly, if your surgery was in your hand, the joint will need to be immobilized for a few weeks. For example, if you have thumb arthrodesis, you will need to wear a cast that extends to your elbow.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Years of wear and tear mean that joint pain often starts in your thirties and forties. Dr Zoe helps a reader who is suffering from finger joint pain. Q: MY left thumb is painful and the joint ...

dadlnet.dk OBJECTIVES To evaluate synovial membrane hypertrophy, tenosynovitis, and erosion development of the 2nd to 5th metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints by ...