When arthritis affects hand joints, daily activities can become difficult. Osteoarthritis of the hands usually occurs later in life, with specific joints often affected more than others. The joints ...

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which tissues in the joint break down over time. The condition can affect ...

Hope for a potential new treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand is held out by new research from the University of Oxford. The authors of the study, published in Science Translational Medicine, ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — People with hand osteoarthritis experienced greater improvements in pain and hand function and reduced disease activity if they used a smartphone app for patient education and ...

If one (or more) of your fingers feel sore and stiff throughout the day—and extra-tender at the moment you open your eyes in the morning—you could be dealing with osteoarthritis of the hands. For ...

For patients with painful finger osteoarthritis, a nonsurgical procedure called lipofilling – in which fat obtained from another part of the body is transferred into the arthritic joints – produces ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Erosive hand OA tends to target older adults and women with preexisting OA, and is associated with severe ...

Objectives Owing to the underrepresentation of early-stage disease in randomised trials and inconsistent clinical evidence, ...

Arthritis doesn’t always begin with obvious joint pain. In fact, sometimes, its symptoms can be really subtle and unexpected.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have read everything I can find on Heberden’s nodes. I have one on the middle finger of my left hand, my writing hand. I have had this node for about three months, and I believe it ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. We use our hands for activities from cooking to brushing our teeth to gardening to writing a shopping list. So when ...

Background Cardiovascular disease and osteoarthritis (OA) share risk factors, but the link between comprehensive ...