Arthritis in your fingers often starts with subtle changes. At first, you might wake up with sore or stiff fingers, notice discomfort after using your fingers a lot, or experience changes in grip ...

While there’s no cure for psoriatic arthritis, there are treatments that can help ease the joint pain, swelling, and stiffness it causes. Some also help keep the disease from further harming your ...

Swelling inside the joints of your hands can make them stiff and sore. You may have swelling outside of the joints, too. These symptoms may affect one hand more than the other. PsA can also make your ...

Samuel Abrams, M.D. Orthopedic surgeon and hand specialist Southeastern Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, a department of Pardee UNC Health Car If pain in your hands is preventing you from doing your ...

Arthritis targets the joints where bones come together, which is why the fingers are so often affected. Fingers and hands have many small joints that need to work together fluidly to allow everything ...

Dactylitis is a painful swelling of the fingers and toes. The name comes from the Greek word “dactylos,” which means “finger.” Dactylitis is one of the telltale symptoms of psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

FOR SYMPTOMS UNTIL JANUARY 25TH. IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR. WHILE ARTHRITIS TYPICALLY OCCURS IN OLDER ADULTS, IT REALLY CAN AFFECT ANYONE. AND AS WE AGE, WE LOSE SOME OF THE CARTILAGE OFF OF THE ...

Few medical conditions seem as inevitable when aging as does arthritis. It's an understandable assumption considering that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the disorder ...

Considered the most common type of inflammatory arthritis, gout primarily affects joints in the feet. However, it can also affect other joints, including those in your fingers. Gout is a type of ...