Conclusions: No clinical benefit was gained from intra-articular steroid injection to the CMCJ in moderate to severe osteoarthritis compared with placebo injection. ACR, American College of ...

Introduction Osteoarthritis (OA) of the first carpometacarpal (CMC-1) joint is a common hand disorder with symptoms including pain and weakness of the thumb. Previous studies have associated high BMI ...

Osteoarthritis of the basal thumb joint is part of normal human aging: everyone gets it if we live long enough. Thumb pain can cause reduced pinch strength and impaired hand capability such as ...

But dexterity comes at a price – an increased risk of osteoarthritis (OA) in the first carpometacarpal (CMC) joint, where the thumb meets the trapezium bone in the wrist. Sometimes the joint becomes ...

Routine radiographs of the injured hand revealed a Bennett’s fracture of the right thumb metacarpal and volar dislocation of the index carpometacarpal joint (fig 1). The dislocation was reduced under ...

Patient is considered a candidate for Thumb Hemiarthroplasty using Stablyx (should indicate which of the following apply) Osteoarthritis of the Thumb CMC joint, Eaton Stage II-IV Rheumatoid or ...

Objective Surgical denervation has been proposed as a treatment for pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA ... metacarpophalangeal or carpometacarpal joints. Quality of studies was assessed and study ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common rheumatic joint disease. It is reported to be more prevalent ... (DIP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and carpometacarpal (CMC)) on ...

Yes, It is quite a fact that untreated joint pain can lead to osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease that worsens over time ...

med.lu.se Objective It is postulated that increased load from pinch and grasp in occupational tasks increases the risk of thumb carpometacarpal (CMC1) osteoarthritis (OA). We sought to characterise ...