This breakdown causes the bones to rub together, causing stiffness, pain and loss of joint movement. In hand OA, the joints most commonly affected by OA are the wrists, the joints at the base of the ...

The ligaments around the wrist joint help stabilize your hand position ... called de Quervain’s tenosynovitis causes wrist pain on the thumb side that may move up into the arm.

Figure 1: Radiograph (X-ray) of the hand, with an arrow pointing to an arthritic basal joint of the thumb ... the appearance of a bump near the wrist. For reasons that remain unclear, the degree of ...

The most frequent symptom is a dull aching pain at the base of the thumb that gets worse with activity ... often creates the appearance of a bump near the wrist. Conservative treatments include icing ...

The wrist is formed where the two bones of the forearm – the radius (the larger bone on the thumb side of the arm) and the ulna (the smaller bone on the pinky side) – meet the carpus. Rather than a ...

Basal joint arthritis, also called arthritis of the thumb, occurs when the joint at the base of your thumb develops arthritis. Arthritis is a disease which attacks or destroys a joint, causing severe ...

Clinical examination revealed generalised swelling of his right hand and wrist. There was no clinical ... a Bennett’s fracture of the right thumb metacarpal and volar dislocation of the index ...