If one (or more) of your fingers feel sore and stiff throughout the day—and extra-tender at the moment you open your eyes in the morning—you could be dealing with osteoarthritis of the hands. For ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that affects the joints and muscles in your body. Rheumatoid arthritis causes inflammation, pain, and discomfort in the joints. This discomfort is often ...

Background Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) commonly affects the hands and wrists with inflammation, deformity, pain, weakness and restricted mobility leading to reduced function. The effectiveness of ...

Imagine a day when you will find it difficult to brush your teeth, button your shirt, open a jar, cook, clean, or type, and just about anything else. Scary? Well, it can be, if arthritis attacks your ...

a SIMPLE optical illusion can halve arthritis pain. Sufferers saw their hand projected on to a TV monitor, then stretched and shrunk by a computer, like a funhouse mirror. And more than eight in 10 of ...

Arthritis, which means ‘inflammation of the joints’, is actually a symptom that has a number of causes. The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is caused by local ...

Q: Will stretching exercises help to relieve my arthritis pain? A: Yes, they will. That may seem strange. After all, arthritis affects the joints – the ends of two adjacent bones and the space between ...

Impairment and dysfunction of hands and upper limbs are key concerns for patients with RA and optimal conservative management has yet to be defined and documented. This pragmatic randomised controlled ...