Advice from a Certified Hand Therapist: Thumb Arthritis
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4M ago
Have you been experiencing stiffness, weakness, or a loss of motion at the base of the thumb? If any of these describe your symptoms, you may have osteoarthritis of the thumb, also known as basal joint arthritis or thumb arthritis ..read more
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Advice from a Hand Therapist: What is Radial Nerve Palsy?
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7M ago
Have you ever felt pins and needles in your leg when you sit down in the same place for too long? This strange sensation is a sign of a mild nerve compression. Nighttime compression of the radial nerve may lead to a condition called radial nerve palsy ..read more
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Pickleball Wrist Pain: What’s All the ‘Racket’?
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1y ago
Do you experience a dull and aching pain or soreness in your wrist during or after playing racket or paddle sports? Does your wrist feel stiff when reaching for low balls or flicking your wrist for those difficult and awkward shots? If you answered yes and your symptoms are located on the “pinky” side of your paddle wrist, then you have ulnar sided wrist pain. Pain in this region can be anything from wrist arthritis, tendon irritation, joint instability, or triangular fibrocartilage (TFCC?) injury ..read more
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How Depression Affects Hand and Arm Symptoms
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1y ago
Sometimes mood disorders like depression can be partially caused by serious hand or arm injuries, especially if a patient has to adjust to a new disability, chronic pain, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from a traumatic event. However, it is less likely for a hand injury to cause depression than for depression to cause a more painful and limiting experience for a patient after an injury. After a hand injury, patients with depression are much more likely to suffer PTSD than patients without depression who experience a hand injury. Depression and PTSD after a hand injury often worsen a p ..read more
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11 Types of Hand Infections
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1y ago
Hand infections can cause serious problems and symptoms, both before and after the infection is resolved. They can result in stiff hands, weak hands, and loss of tissues such as skin, nerve and bone.  It is important to visit a hand surgeon immediately and get early treatment if you have signs of one of these hand infections ..read more
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Advice from a Certified Hand Therapist: What is Raynaud's Disease?
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1y ago
Do your fingers turn pale when taking items out of the freezer? Is there stiffness and pain in your fingers in mildly cold weather, followed by redness and swelling as they warm up?  If so, you may have Raynaud’s Disease, or Raynaud’s phenomenon. But how do you know the difference? Or if you know you have it ..read more
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Ask a Doctor: Splinters, Slivers, and Foreign Bodies
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1y ago
Splinters, slivers, and other material in the hand may be a simple problem, but they can also need treatment by a doctor and, in special circumstances, a hand surgeon. In this article, hand surgeon Jeffrey C. Wint, MD from the Hand Center of Western Massachusetts answers your questions about splinters, slivers, and other foreign bodies ..read more
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Treating Hand Arthritis Without Surgery
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1y ago
There are many things we can do to try to improve hand arthritis symptoms when they occur.  Conservative management of arthritis- meaning treatment without surgery- is almost always the first step. There are many options to try.  ..read more
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How to Take Care of Dressings After Surgery
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1y ago
After a hand injury or surgery, you will have gotten dressed. Well, you got dressed in your own clothes, but your hand or arm may have, too. “Dressing” is the term used by medical professionals to describe the materials placed on top of a wound or incision that helps keep your wound protected and free from infection ..read more
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8 Signs of Mallet Finger
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1y ago
A mallet finger, sometimes called “baseball finger” because it can be common in baseball players, is a deformity of the finger typically caused by injury. Most likely, a hard object like a ball struck the tip of your finger or your finger was bent forcefully when lifting a heavy object or performing a daily task. A mallet finger can happen to anybody. These are some signs that you may have mallet finger ..read more
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