Source: Verywell Health
Finger pain can result from chronic health conditions, injuries, and joint deformities. Finger pain can significantly impact your ability to use your fingers and hands to complete fine motor movements and activities of daily living.
Source: WebMD
So maybe you’ve had tennis elbow before and you want to keep it from coming back. Or, you have a job -- say you’re a painter or a carpenter -- where you’re more likely to get it and you want to avoid it in the first place. The memory, or even the thought, of swollen tendons causing pain from your elbow to your wrist can definitely motivate you. Turns out, there’s a lot you can do to keep your elbows happy and healthy.
Source: Medical News Today
The hamate is a small bone in the hand, just above the wrist. Hook of hamate fractures are uncommon, and doctors often miss them, leaving them undiagnosed.
Source: Medical News Today
The radius and the ulna are bones in the forearm. A fracture is a broken bone. Fractures of the radius and ulna are among the most common bone injuries.
Source: Verywell Health
Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the median nerve becomes pinched or squeezed as it travels through a passageway in the wrist formed by the carpal bones and the flexor retinaculum.
Source: Medical News Today
Intersection syndrome is when tendons in a person’s wrist and back of the forearm become inflamed and swollen. It is a rare form of tendonitis. People who play certain sports may be at an increased risk.
Source: Verywell Health
A severed finger is a serious injury that can significantly change how you use your hands.
Source: Handcare (ASSH)
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. You may have a mallet finger if you’ve recently jammed, cut, or broken your fingertip. 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.
Source: Verywell Health
The scaphoid bone is one of eight small bones—called carpal bones—in the wrist. These bones allow complex, yet delicate, movements of the hand and wrist.
Source: Verywell Health
The wrist is one of the main joints affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) since this condition often starts in the small joints of the hand and wrist. About one in seven people in the United States has wrist arthritis.
