Thumb pain can occur from damage to various structures in your hand, including ligaments, tendons, bones, and nerves. Common conditions that cause thumb pain include arthritis, tendonitis ...

When patients experience extreme trauma, sometimes doctors have to find creative ways to help get their lives back to normal. This is what a medical team in Iran did for a 25-year-old worker after a ...

Andrew O’Brien is a chartered physiotherapist and the owner of Wannarun Physiotherapy and Running Clinic at Westport Leisure Park. He can be contacted on 083 1593200 or at www.wannarun.ie.

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 following are the main structures of the hands: 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 ...

Removable splints for the basal joint of the thumb are used for two primary purposes: providing support to improve hand function and providing rest to decrease inflammation and pain. Based on an ...

Objectives: Rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is a frequent injury of the hand ... of thumb UCL injuries, with a minimum of 2 years mean follow-up, were included. Pain, range of ...

So, when he started noticing arthritis pain in 2013, he knew it would affect ... with Bill on a treatment plan that included a thumb joint replacement surgery and rigorous rehabilitation through hand ...