Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New hand osteoarthritis classification criteria from EULAR discriminate between interphalangeal and thumb base ...

Severe pain from arthritis in your middle knuckle (PIP joint) may require replacement (arthroplasty). Silicone replacements are the most common. They tend to have the best results and typically last ...

Sarah Bradley is a writer with six years of experience creating personal essays, reported features, and content related to health and parenting topics. Pain, swelling, and stiffness in joints are ...

Objective Transcortical pores and the bare area have been suggested as structural determinants of bone erosions in rheumatoid ...

A 54-year-old white man had two “warts” on the second distal interphalangeal joint of his right hand. The lesion near his nail bed was associated with a longitudinal defect in the nail. He had tried ...

The first video in a series I'm making on my new, redesigned biomimetic bionic hand. In this video I introduce a new interphalangeal joint - a simple hinge although there are some very specific ...

Mucous cysts are pseudocysts (cystic structures lacking a true lining) that usually appear on the middle or index finger of the dominant hand; toe involvement is uncommon. Although most mucous cysts ...

A 44-year-old pathologist presented to the emergency department after sustaining a scalpel injury during a postmortem examination 16 hours previously. He had stabbed the dorsum of his left thumb ...