Carpometacarpal osteoarthritis is also known as osteoarthritis of the thumb or CMC joint arthritis. Symptoms can include pain and swelling. Treatment typically includes icing, splinting ...

This one of the few joints affected by osteoarthritis in which the response to steroid injection is rewarding – the other joint responding well to steroid injection is the acromioclavicular joint.

Katt and colleagues used wrist radiographs to visualize location of the CMC joint injection with triamcinolone ... extra-articular injections for thumb carpometacarpal arthritis is well done ...