They are also useful in diagnosing osteoarthritis, while joint aspiration can reveal uric acid crystals in people with gout. Understanding what's causing swollen finger joints is the basis for ...

The middle joint on your finger is called the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint. Osteoarthritis can also cause these joints to become painful, stiff, and bumpy. Rheumatoid arthritis is usually ...

Home treatments can also help to reduce the pain and other symptoms of osteoarthritis in your hands and fingers. Hand and finger exercises can be a noninvasive way to: keep your joints flexible ...

Heberden’s nodes are bony growths that can develop on the finger joints of people with osteoarthritis. They usually affect the joints nearest the fingertips and can cause pain and stiffness.

OA in your hands is most likely to affect the base of your thumb or the finger joints closest to your fingernails. It can also affect the wrist. Osteoarthritis sometimes causes bony bumps over ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA ... may develop on the small finger joints. Joints affected Usually begins in smaller joints, especially in the fingers. Symptoms are symmetrical ...

Erosive osteoarthritis (EOA) is a rare condition involving cartilage damage and bone erosion to the hand’s finger joints. It is a more severe form of osteoarthritis (OA) and causes impaired hand ...

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 ...

Osteoarthritis results from the gradual breakdown of cartilage in the joints. It differs from rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder, and is a leading cause of pain, reduced mobility and ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the Western world's ... As OA affects a limited number of weight-bearing joints and has no major extra-articular manifestations, it is well suited to local, intra-articular ...

Knee osteoarthritis affects nearly one in five ... more at risk because their greater weight puts more strain on their joints. But the more they studied arthritis, the more researchers discovered ...