From standard medical therapies to old wives’ tale remedies, there are hundreds of treatment options to relieve the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis (OA). But which really work? Not every remedy ...

Background We aimed to update the 2018 systematic literature review on the efficacy and safety of treatments for hand osteoarthritis (OA), which was based on 126 studies. Methods We performed a ...

Common symptoms include pain, stiffness, swelling or numbness in the wrist and fingers. Pitted nails, painful ulcers or thickened skin that makes bending the fingers difficult may also occur. Here are ...

Medically reviewed by Mohamad Hassan, PT Arthritis is a condition that causes inflammation and cartilage loss within the ...

Since osteoarthritis is caused by using a joint over time ... When neither physical therapy nor medications are sufficient to treat hand or wrist arthritis, surgical options generally involve either ...

Objective Surgical denervation has been proposed as a treatment for pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA ... Studies on OA in other joints (including wrist) or other causes of hand pain were excluded.

A 2022 study of 1,458 people with an RA diagnosis (two-thirds of them women) found the symptoms often affected the wrist ...

The assessment included bilateral examination of 16 joints of the hands: Wrist, first carpometacarpal and interphalangeal ... The study mittens were designed for outdoor sports use, not for the ...