Infection, injury, and arthritis are common causes of swollen finger joints. Rest, ice, and medications can often help reduce swelling and pain. Severe cases may require antibiotics or surgery to ...

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 mornings now begin with stiff knees, achy hips or hands that need a minute to get going, you're far from alone. More than 50 million American adults live with arthritis, and women over 50 are often ...

For patients with painful finger osteoarthritis, a nonsurgical procedure called lipofilling—in which fat obtained from another part of the body is transferred into the arthritic joints—produces ...

Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA) is an autoimmune condition that develops in older adults. Although EORA causes the same symptoms as young-onset rheumatoid arthritis (YORA), including joint ...

There are many different types of arthritis, and diagnosing the exact type of inflammatory disease that is affecting a patient's joints is not always easy. In an interdisciplinary research project ...

Rachel Tavel is a doctor of physical therapy, certified strength and conditioning specialist and writer. She works as a physical therapist in an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy setting and as a ...