BALTIMORE — Investigators have found that patients who are older and have prior osteoarthritis may be more likely to experience hand stiffness following treatment for distal radius fractures. The type ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have read everything I can find on Heberden’s nodes. I have one on the middle finger of my left hand, my writing hand. I have had this node for about three months, and I believe it ...

This week we are going to start a series of commonly missed orthopedic injuries throughout the body. The first one we are going to discuss today is the DRUJ injury. The DRUJ injury is an injury of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress showed an increase in the occurrence of osteophytes and decrease ...

A finger joint replacement involves removing a damaged or worn joint from the finger and putting in an artificial one. Also called an arthroplasty, this type of surgery is most commonly used in cases ...

IN CIVILIAN life, acute suppurative tenosynovitis and trauma to the joint phalanges are the most common causes of loss of flexor function in the hand. Loss of flexor function means loss of the "hook ...

Psoriatic arthritis always involves joint pain and inflammation, but there are subcategories defined by what parts of the body are affected, and treatments may vary. Not everyone with psoriatic ...