Early treatment can help relieve symptoms and protect joint function from arthritis in your fingers. Symptoms of finger arthritis often include stiffness, decreased grip strength, and swelling around ...

You reach for your coffee mug in the morning and notice your fingers feel unusually stiff and achy. You shake your hands a bit, attribute it to sleeping in an odd position, and go about your day. But ...

If you have psoriatic arthritis (PsA), you may be familiar with sore fingers, stiff wrists, and the frustration of struggling with formerly simple tasks like buttoning a shirt or chopping vegetables.

The hands contain 27 bones and over 30 muscles, making them particularly vulnerable to arthritis pain and stiffness. When the cartilage between joints breaks down, the resulting inflammation creates ...

Over time, arthritis mutilans leads to the destruction of the affected bones in your hands, particularly in your fingers. It can also affect your feet. People with arthritis mutilans may eventually ...

When arthritis affects hand joints, daily activities can become difficult. Osteoarthritis of the hands usually occurs later in life, with specific joints often affected more than others. The joints ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Arthritis in the hands is more common than you might think. Nearly 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men will ...

Which fingerless gloves for arthritis are best? Whether it’s your wrist, palm or fingers, pain or discomfort due to hand-related arthritis can make life tough. Thankfully, there are ways to minimize ...

Millions of people in the U.S. have some form of arthritis and suffer from achy, stiff joints. And while there are several different ways to go about finding pain relief and improved joint mobility, ...

Arthritis doesn’t always begin with obvious joint pain. In fact, sometimes, its symptoms can be really subtle and unexpected.

VIENNA — "These are exciting times in the field of finger polyarthritis, as there are new data that help us better understand and possibly treat arthritis in the hands," said Margreet Kloppenburg, MD, ...