The swelling may be due to a chronic (persistent or recurrent) condition, like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or gout.

Gout often affects the big toe but can also affect other joints, including the thumb. If you have burning pain in a thumb ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My 8-year-old, Michael, had me concerned. He was finishing up third grade and still sucked his thumb. "What can I do to make him stop?" I asked my pediatrician. His grandmother had been successful ...

However, it can also affect the neck, wrists, and elbows. PsA in the finger usually affects the joint closest to the nail. Swelling in arthritis occurs when either the lining of the joint or the ...

Connective tissues consist of ligaments, cartilage and tendons. A joint is held together by ligaments which give the joints their stability. Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where ...

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 ...

It's time to make those fingers bend by adding knuckle joints! With the help of a grown up, use one edge of your scissors to score along the cardboard where the finger joints should be.