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 ...

Swelling inside the joints of your hands can make them stiff and sore. You may have swelling outside of the joints, too. These symptoms may affect one hand more than the other. PsA can also make your ...

If you've felt a little stiffness in your knees after sitting for too long or experienced pain or swelling in your joints, you may have wondered if arthritis could be the cause. Arthritis affects ...

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 ...

Everybody gets swollen fingers or toes sometimes. When your fingers or toes are so puffy that they look like sausages -- and they hurt, too -- you need to see your doctor. You could have a type of ...

Arthritis in your fingers often starts with subtle changes. At first, you might wake up with sore or stiff fingers, notice discomfort after using your fingers a lot, or experience changes in grip ...