Arthritis of the fingers is a severe progressive disease that leads to disability if not properly treated. This disease is by no means limited to older people - the joint-disfiguring progression of the inflammatory process can begin in people of any age.
As with any other disease, in order to achieve a good effect and completely get rid of arthritis of the fingers, you need to start fighting it as early as possible. That is why treatment of this disease must be carried out quickly, efficiently and, most importantly, on time.
Why does arthritis of the fingers occur, and what is it? Generally speaking, arthritis is an inflammation of the joints of the human body. Absolutely any joints can become inflamed, however, most often it manifests itself in some small joints. For example, this is a common disease of the joints of the toes and hands. For the most part, arthritis is a female disease. According to statistics, men experience this disease two or even three times less often than women.
The main characteristic of any arthritis is inflammation of certain organs. The reasons for its appearance may be several factors, and depending on this, arthritis of the joints of the fingers can be of the following types:
Determining the type of arthritis of the hands is the most important task, since all types have the same first signs, but the treatment for each of them can differ significantly.
The causes of arthritis in the fingers can be different, but the symptoms are similar in many cases (see photo). This is the appearance of swelling, puffiness. The skin takes on a purplish hue, and weakness appears in the hands. Sometimes the temperature rises.
Let us list the first and main signs of arthritis of the fingers:
If the lesion was caused by infectious arthritis, complications in the form of purulent inflammation may occur. In this case, the general condition of the body also sometimes worsens (increased body temperature, malaise, weak appetite).
Depending on what is the cause of arthritis of the fingers, treatment is selected individually.
In the case of gout, our actions are aimed at normalizing purine metabolism and reducing the concentration of uric acid in the blood, and uricosuric and uricodepressive drugs and diet will help with this. In rheumatoid arthritis, all our efforts are aimed at modulating the immune response, and we use immunosuppressants, cytostatics and newer treatments such as monoclonal antibody therapy.
The leading role in the treatment of arthritis, especially of rheumatoid origin, belongs to basic anti-inflammatory drugs, which are prescribed for long-term use (minimum 3 months, maximum lifelong). Medicines in this group are able to suppress the activity of immunosuppressive cells and stop the pathological process, maintaining their effect for a long time after drug withdrawal.
To treat arthritis during the remission period, methods such as:
In an advanced stage, arthritis of the fingers is practically not amenable to drug treatment. An alternative is to install a prosthetic joint through surgery.
It is acceptable, in combination with medications and other procedures, to treat arthritis of the fingers with folk remedies: home-made ointments, compresses, infusions and decoctions of herbs, baths. Naturally, the chosen methods must be agreed upon with the attending physician.
All folk remedies can only be used as a preventive and temporary measure. To avoid unpleasant consequences in the early stages of the development of arthritis in the joint tissues of the fingers, you should seek specialized help.
In order not to waste time, effort and money on treating this difficult disease, follow the following preventive measures:
You also need to enrich your diet with vitamin E. You should remember that you should not lift weights or overexert yourself, but you need to do exercises every day, swim and stretch.
Older and middle-aged people often suffer from various joint diseases. Their external manifestation is bumps on the joints of the fingers. Such growths especially cause a lot of trouble for women. In addition to spoiling the appearance of the hand, lumps can be extremely painful and limit joint mobility. Timely treatment can stop joint deformation and alleviate the patient’s condition.
Deformation of the small joints of the hands is the most common complaint of patients when visiting an orthopedist or rheumatologist. Seals can form on one joint or on several. Often they are completely painless and cause only aesthetic discomfort, but over time they can begin to increase in size. This leads to curvature of the fingers and limited functionality of the hand. Why do growths appear and what are their features?
The cause of such deformities is most often the age of the patient. Bumps on joints occur especially often in people over 48-50 years of age, although they can also appear in younger people. In this case, they form after suffering bruises and fractures of the fingers.
In addition, thickenings and growths on the phalanges are often symptoms of joint diseases. They are characteristic of the following pathological conditions:
A predisposing factor to the formation of bumps on the fingers can be metabolic disorders, increased weight, an unbalanced diet, diabetes mellitus and other endocrine diseases.
If subcutaneous growths and nodules appear in the area of the phalanges, you should immediately consult a specialist to determine the causes of this pathological phenomenon.
To thoroughly understand why bumps form, you should consider in more detail the most common forms of growths, their features and location.
Such formations appear against the background of arthritis or arthrosis. They are a manifestation of degenerative-inflammatory changes in the joints and look like dense, often painless subcutaneous growths. Pain, swelling, redness of the skin and itching appear during an exacerbation. Symptoms can be controlled with medications.
Such bumps usually grow in older women, noticeably deforming and bending the fingers. The main causes of the formation of Bouchard and Heberden's nodes are considered to be age-related changes, hereditary predisposition to joint diseases, injuries or hypothermia of the upper extremities.
The deformity most often affects the index or middle finger. The little finger suffers a little less often. Arthritis nodules practically do not form on the thumb.
It should be noted that this defect cannot be eliminated. Once it appears, it will remain forever.
A lump filled with fluid is called a hygroma, or synovial cyst. The growth usually appears on the middle finger next to the nail.
The defect most often occurs as a result of repeated injuries to the fingers or constant physical stress on the joints of the hands, for example, when working as a massage therapist.
Hygroma is characterized by thinning of the skin at the site of growth and deformation of the nail. The cyst does not cause any particular pain, but sometimes it is desirable to remove it.
Many schoolchildren and students may notice a lump on the upper phalanx of the middle finger. The painful defect is formed from constant use of the pen and is a callus.
The seal can be completely invisible or quite large, distorting the joint. This growth does not require special treatment. It is enough to choose a softer handle body. Changes in the joint will go away on their own when the load on the finger decreases. But this is a long process that can take several years.
For treatment to be effective, it is necessary to correctly determine the cause of finger deformities and begin therapy in the early stages of the disease. That’s why you shouldn’t delay getting specialist advice. Self-medication will not help in this case. The doctor will analyze the results of an X-ray examination, MRI data, general and biochemical blood tests, puncture, and biopsy. Based on the data received, he will make the correct diagnosis and prescribe specific treatment.
Modern medicine has a large number of effective drugs to eliminate joint pain and the progression of the formation of growths.
During an exacerbation, the following medications must be taken:
Corticosteroid hormones for bumps on the fingers are used extremely rarely, only in cases of complicated and extensive lesions.
A full course of therapy is possible only under the strict supervision of a doctor. The specialist should explain to the patient that it is impossible to remove arthritic bumps on the hands. Therefore, the main goal of treatment is to defeat the disease that caused the growths.
Local use of anti-inflammatory drugs in the form of creams and ointments is part of the complex therapy of joint diseases. The use of such external agents gives a good effect:
These drugs help reduce pain, improve nutrition of the affected tissues, increase blood circulation, relieve swelling and inflammation in the joint tissues.
Bishofite helps well with bumps on the joints of the hands. It can be used in the form of compresses or hand baths. The substance is part of many painkillers and regenerating creams.
Treatment of compactions caused by chronic articular pathology must be comprehensive. Therefore, in addition to medications, patients are necessarily prescribed the following physical procedures:
Physiotherapy is most effective at the initial stage of the disease. The procedures quickly relieve pain and swelling, stop the formation of growths and destruction of joints.
At home, you can do a simple massage of your fingers, while simultaneously rubbing in anti-inflammatory, analgesic or warming ointments. The treating specialist will teach the patient the technique of self-massage.
During the period of remission, it is recommended to do simple physical therapy exercises daily for the joints of the hands. The set of exercises should include the following movements: squeezing/unclamping the hand, spreading/moving and flexion/extension of the finger joints. For training, you can use a tennis ball or expander.
Daily gymnastics will increase blood circulation and improve nutrition of tissues damaged by the disease, returning flexibility and mobility to joints.
Alternative medicine can offer a huge number of recipes to eliminate inflammation and pain in the joints of the hands, soften and reduce bumps on the fingers.
Various compresses and rubbing products are very popular among patients:
You can use folk remedies only after consulting a specialist and under no circumstances replace the main treatment with them.
You can take turmeric powder internally. This remedy, which is most useful for joints, has a strong absorbable and anti-inflammatory effect.
To quickly eliminate the symptoms of the disease, the patient needs to normalize the diet. Salty, hot, spicy and canned foods should be excluded from the diet. You also need to increase the amount of vegetables, fruits, cereals and lactic acid products consumed. Patients benefit from lean varieties of meat and fish.
Arthritis bumps on the joints of the fingers are not an independent disease, but only a manifestation of a chronic joint disease. Therefore, treating only growths will not help. Therapy should be comprehensive and aimed primarily at eliminating the underlying disease. This approach to the problem will help prevent the growth of old seals and the formation of new changes in the joints of the fingers.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a severe systemic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the joints. As a rule, the disease occurs in symmetrical joints.
This means that when signs of the disease appear on one hand, the same joints on the other are affected. Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by a wave-like course, when a period of deterioration of the condition is spontaneously replaced by a period of improvement.
The main reason lies in the disruption of the immune system. In addition, several factors are important for the occurrence of the disease:
The likelihood of developing a disease increases if one or more factors become permanent (chronic).
aching pain and the inability to clench a fist are the first signs that should alert you
This disease progresses slowly, but clinical manifestations are constantly increasing.
You should be alerted by aching pain in the joints of both hands at once. There is swelling and redness of the joints, and stiffness. It becomes almost impossible to clench your hand into a fist. The pain is not constant and is often associated with intense physical activity. Usually the pain becomes stronger at night and continues until the morning, then gradually subsides and may completely disappear in the evening.
Due to poor circulation, the skin of the hands and wrists becomes pale, becomes thin and dry, muscle atrophy and necrosis around the nail bed may begin.
The onset of the disease can be determined by such signs as inflammation and swelling of the metacarpophalangeal joints of the index and middle fingers (these joints are located at the base of the fingers), creaking of the joints when moving (crepitus), numbness and tingling in the first three fingers.
As the disease worsens, the joints of the fingers begin to deform, acquire a spindle-shaped shape, and rheumatoid nodules form on them.
The deformity continues to progress and the fingers become fixed in an incorrectly bent position. Motor activity of the hands decreases quite quickly. This process is irreversible.
photo diagram of rheumatoid nodes on the fingers
A complete cure is impossible today, but the earlier treatment is started, the more success can be achieved in alleviating the patient’s condition, and the greater the chance of preventing or slowing down rheumatic damage to internal organs and muscles.
Properly selected drugs make it possible to obtain a long-term improvement in the patient’s well-being. But another stress, hypothermia or other reason again leads to an increase in the symptoms of arthritis.
Drug therapy for the disease is aimed at eliminating pain and stiffness in the joints of the hand, and at slowing down the current pathological process.
Basic (basic) drugs with immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects are used after an accurate diagnosis.
For particularly severe joint deformities, surgical treatment is used. During surgery, part of the joint or the entire joint is removed and replaced with a prosthesis.
In each case, a rheumatologist must decide how to most successfully treat rheumatoid arthritis of the hands.
In addition to these procedures, it is recommended to do therapeutic exercises for the joints and adjust the diet, excluding from it foods that provoke the development of the disease - strong broths from meat, fish, mushrooms, marinades, smoked meats, canned food, milk, corn, citrus fruits, oatmeal, coffee and strong tea , too hot or cold food.
It is necessary to ensure a constant supply of protein from food, its amount may even be slightly increased. The amount of animal fats and sugar must be reduced. The presence of vegetable oils rich in vitamins A, E, C in the diet is mandatory.
Regular exercises with a wrist ball for rheumatoid arthritis of the hands will help maintain joint mobility. Knitting and playing musical instruments also contribute to this.
This disease affects not only the joints of the fingers, but also the entire body as a whole.
Since rheumatoid arthritis of the hands and fingers is an autoimmune disease, there is no prevention. We can only recommend following some rules:
For many years, a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis meant inevitable disability. Recently, it has become possible to prevent relapses and provide the patient with long-term remission.
A favorable result in treatment is ensured by timely detection of the disease and timely initiation of therapy. At the same time, an improvement in the condition and the onset of remission is possible within the first year.
One of the characteristic symptoms of joint diseases is their deformation and the formation of bone or cartilage lumps. Such signs can occur in patients regardless of age, but are more common in older people. If they appear, you need to contact a specialist. It is important to remember that self-medication can cause complications and cause serious illness.
Various factors can contribute to the formation of bumps. First of all, these include:
Neoplasms on the fingers usually appear in old age and are characterized by the absence of pain at the site of formation. Over time, they can increase in size, be accompanied by pain and cause some discomfort. Phenomena of this kind can cause nerve compression and tissue destruction, which leads to deformation of the fingers.
What diseases cause growths?
There are a number of pathologies in which growths may form on the fingers. The most common diseases:
An inflammatory disease characterized by the accumulation of uric acid salts in the joints, which leads to the formation of lumps (tophi), which are deposits of sodium urate. It is more common in older patients and is accompanied by hyperemia of the skin in the affected area and severe pain caused by the inflammatory process.
Occurs on both arms and legs. Growths of this kind require treatment, as they can lead to joint deformation.
It is a bump on the skin, usually next to the nail, filled with a viscous liquid that periodically leaks. It is characterized by thinning of the skin in the area of the tumor and can lead to deformation of the shape of the nail. It is usually not painful and does not require treatment.
In some cases, the surgeon may recommend removal of the hygroma - this is a simple operation performed in a clinic. Unfortunately, after removal, new lumps may form.
An inflammatory disease that affects the joints of the hands and feet. It is characterized by acute pain, especially at night, redness at the site of inflammation, as well as increased local temperature. Arthritis is the most common cause of joint bumps. There are rheumatoid and infectious arthritis:
Arthritis growths often form in the chronic form of the disease.
A characteristic feature of this diagnosis is the destruction of the cartilage layers, which leads to the formation of growths. Most often observed in older people. Arthrosis affects the joints of the hands and feet, causing their deformation and the formation of lumps on the fingers.
There are primary and secondary types of arthrosis:
A chronic inflammatory process that can affect not only joint tissue, but also the cardiovascular system. The disease is a consequence of a streptococcal infection entering the body, which affects the upper respiratory tract. The main symptom of rheumatism is pain in large joints caused by the development of the inflammatory process.
If not treated promptly, it can lead to the formation of growths on the arms and legs. This pathology is more common in young patients, therefore it is quite dangerous and requires timely intervention by specialists.
They develop against the background of arthrosis and appear as bumps on the fingers. They are usually localized between the phalanges of the fingers and are small, hard growths that are usually painless on palpation. Over time, they can cause some discomfort and a feeling of stiffness in the fingers.
The formation of nodes in this case is caused by the destruction of articular tissues, which leads to its deformation. It most often affects people after 45 years of age.
When such tumors appear, patients are advised to follow a diet, add more vegetables, fruits and dairy products to the diet, which contain large amounts of vitamins and minerals. It is also necessary to give up alcohol, coffee and tobacco products. Physical therapy exercises are quite effective. Exercises are prescribed individually for each patient, depending on the type of disease.
In addition to proper nutrition and exercise, drug treatment is prescribed. In some pathologies, the patient is offered surgery to remove the growths. The procedure is simple, takes only 15 minutes, and is performed in a clinical setting. Such operations are prescribed only for certain indications or for cosmetic purposes.
It is important to remember that treatment of neoplasms can only be carried out by the attending physician. Self-treatment and removal of tumors is dangerous and can lead to serious consequences.
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Arthritis is an inflammatory disease in the joints. It can affect both large and small compounds. The occurrence of arthritis of the fingers can have a different etiology and is divided into types based on its causal nature.
If finger joint arthritis affects only one joint, the condition is called monoarthritis. When several different joints are involved in the inflammatory process at once, then the diagnosis is polyarthritis.
Among the diseases that occur in the joints of the fingers, rheumatoid arthritis can most often be found. It can be chronic (occasionally reminds a person of its existence) or have an acute course. At first, a barely noticeable stiffness appears in the joints of the fingers, after which some small movements become difficult.
With the onset of movement, this condition passes almost immediately and reminds itself only the next day, and every day the stiffness is felt in the joints more strongly and becomes longer lasting. After a period of time (it’s different for everyone), pain begins to join the stiffness. After this, the finger joints begin to enlarge.
Rheumatoid arthritis of the finger joints affects the joints symmetrically (if there is inflammation on the left hand, it will also appear on the right). Another sign of this disease is an increase in body temperature, a decrease or complete lack of appetite, and sometimes even insomnia.
After noticing the first signs of the disease, you must immediately consult a special doctor, otherwise, in the absence of the necessary help, the process will progress, and will soon begin to affect not only the joints of the fingers, but also others (elbow, knee, and in advanced cases, joints spinal column).
Unfortunately, today arthritis of the finger joints cannot be completely cured, since there are no methods yet that would allow this. Therapy is mainly aimed at relieving pain, inflammation, and also improving metabolic processes in joint tissues. Drug therapy includes the prescription of anti-inflammatory non-steroidal drugs and the prescription of dietary supplements (dietary supplements), physiotherapy and exercise therapy. If arthritis of the finger joints is treated promptly, the development of disability can be avoided.
Many people cannot understand why and where they got arthritis in their finger joints. The range of occurrence of this disease is very extensive. The causative agent may be a weakened immune system, or an infectious disease, injury or bruises, metabolic disorders, allergies and others. This disease is typical for both men and women, and sometimes this disease manifests itself even in children.
Traditional (alternative) medicine offers treatment methods that directly depend on the type of disease. You can use the following treatment methods: ointments of snake and bee venom, manure, nettle leaves, cabbage and others. In addition to the methods mentioned above, traditional medicine offers the following procedures that have a positive effect:
Do not neglect folk remedies. There are many different recipes for treating arthritis of the finger joints. For example, to dull and prevent pain in your fingers, when going to bed, you can straighten and relax your fingers, put them under your stomach, chest or pillow.
In case of severe arthritis, or unsuccessful drug treatment. The goal of using the surgical method is to eliminate pain and restore motor function of the joint.
To avoid having to resort to treatment for arthritis, it is best to engage in its prevention.
How to keep your joints healthy
If all these requirements are met, no arthritis of the finger joints will be terrible.
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system always cause a lot of inconvenience to a person: performance is lost, pain appears, and movements in the joints are limited. This can occur when one large or several small joints are affected.
Arthritis of the fingers is a fairly common problem in modern clinical practice. Patients regularly turn to a rheumatologist with complaints from the joints of the fingers.
This condition is not easy to treat. It is important to identify the cause of inflammation. To do this, you need to know the characteristic symptoms of each disease.
Arthritis of the fingers is only a symptom, a manifestation of the disease. To begin full treatment, it is necessary to identify the causes that caused the inflammation.
The most common causes of pathology:
To figure out what causes the disease, the doctor will focus on the specific symptoms of each of them.
Arthritis of the hands can have completely different causes. However, some symptoms are common to most diseases:
Arthritis of the hands is prone to steady progression and the formation of serious deformities. They can cause loss of ability to work. To prevent this situation, you should know the first signs of arthritis.
You should consult a doctor if you notice the first signs of inflammation such as:
The other listed symptoms appear much later, with the formation of deformations and inflammatory changes in the joints. The first signs may differ depending on the cause of the disease.
A fairly large percentage of patients with inflammation of the joints of the fingers are diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The causes of this disease are unknown, but doctors have developed quite effective methods of therapy.
Arthritis of the finger joints with this disease has some features:
These symptoms allow your doctor to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis.
When there is inflammation in any organ of the body, the human immune system begins to produce antibodies - proteins that attack pathogenic microbes. Sometimes these antibodies recognize the joint's own cells as hostile, attack them, and reactive arthritis develops.
Here are its characteristic symptoms:
Reactive arthritis, unlike rheumatoid arthritis, is highly treatable. It is enough to sanitize the extra-articular inflammation.
A fairly common problem is arthritis of the fingers due to degenerative joint diseases. This problem is called deforming arthrosis and is associated with increased stress or injuries to the hand.
The joints of the wrist, metacarpal bones and phalanges of the fingers can be affected by a disease such as psoriasis.
Characteristic signs of the disease:
Psoriasis is difficult to treat with folk remedies and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. It is important to choose the right basic therapy; this is done by rheumatologists.
Gouty arthritis is one of the manifestations of excess uric acid in the body. A joint attack in this disease has the following characteristics:
The symptoms of gouty arthritis can be eliminated by following a diet and taking hypouricemic drugs.
Many systemic autoimmune diseases cause inflammation in the small joints of the hand.
It is usually accompanied by the following features:
It is extremely rare that infectious arthritis occurs in the area of the hand joints. Typically, pathogenic microorganisms enter large joints - knee, shoulder, hip.
However, with open wounds or with blood flow, infection can also be introduced into the articular capsule of small joints of the hand. In this case, the following symptoms occur:
Infectious arthritis responds well to treatment with antibiotics, but therapy should be started as soon as possible.
An experienced rheumatologist is able to make a diagnosis based on the characteristic symptoms of the disease. To confirm it, it is necessary to carry out several laboratory and instrumental diagnostic methods.
Diagnostic procedures used include:
From the listed research methods, the doctor selects the most informative and uses the data to confirm the presumptive diagnosis.
Most often, arthritis is treated at home. However, before this you should visit a specialist to determine a treatment regimen.
Possible treatments:
The doctor combines the presented methods based on contraindications and the severity of the symptoms of the disease.
It is necessary to treat arthritis with medications. Using exclusively traditional methods of therapy at home will most likely lead to progression of the disease.
To eliminate the symptoms of the disease, the following medications are used:
To eliminate the cause and influence the mechanism of development of the disease, medications such as:
The attending physician combines medications, taking into account contraindications and possible effects, individually for each patient. Under no circumstances should you treat arthritis on your own without consulting a doctor.
In order to reduce the intensity of symptoms and eliminate manifestations of the disease, therapeutic exercises for the hand are also used. Exercises are agreed with the doctor and performed regularly, 30 minutes a day.
Physiotherapy can improve blood circulation in the joint and reduce the intensity of inflammation. Each method has contraindications and is therefore prescribed by a doctor.
For deforming arthrosis and rheumatoid arthritis, orthotic devices for the joints of the hand have proven themselves. Special bandages can eliminate hand deformities with regular use.
Many patients prefer to use proven traditional medicine recipes. Used at home:
The effectiveness and safety of prescriptions should be assessed by the attending physician.
If conservative therapy is ineffective and grade 3 deforming arthrosis occurs, the doctor prescribes surgical treatment. Surgical intervention is aimed at plastic surgery of small joints, since prosthetics of the joints of the hand is still difficult to achieve.
Almost every woman has to face such a problem with arthritis of the fingers, as the symptoms and treatment of this disease, upon reaching a respectable age. This disease does not bypass representatives of the stronger sex. Arthritis of the wrist and fingers is considered an occupational disease. A similar conclusion was made based on many years of clinical observations of patients who were diagnosed with arthritis of the joints of the upper extremities.
As a rule, inflammation of the joints of the phalanges of the hand affects those people whose occupation is associated with various types of work in which tension in the hand muscles occurs. Arthritis of the wrist joint can progress, affecting the entire hand. This disease is so dangerous that it can deprive a person of his ability to work, turning him into a helpless disabled person who is deprived of the opportunity to take care of himself even in small things.
A deformed joint is a constant source of pain and discomfort, turning the patient’s life into constant agony. Arthritis of the fingers, the photo shows this, also causes moral suffering to the patient, since he is forced to hide his hands from the eyes of others.
The hands are not always affected by arthritis as a result of professional activities. Very often this disease is secondary, as a consequence of infectious, rheumatic and metabolic pathologies.
Arthritis of the wrist and phalanges of the fingers can occur for the following reasons:
Medicine does not ignore the stress factor. Strong feelings and psychological fatigue may well be the causes of the disease.
Signs of arthritis of the hands appear depending on the cause that triggered the onset of the disease. Depending on the gender and age of the patient, their manifestation can vary significantly.
There is a list of signs that are characteristic of any etiology of arthritis:
In advanced cases, the patient experiences weakness and fatigue. The inflammatory process can cause a slight increase in body temperature, decreased appetite and weight loss.
Regardless of whether the patient is diagnosed with only arthritis of the thumb or the entire hand is affected, the development of the disease has several stages:
Depending on the cause that caused the pathological changes in the hands, arthritis is divided into several types:
In almost half of the clinical cases, arthritis in the hands developed as a complication of somatic diseases and disorders of the immune system.
As soon as a person discovers a hand pathology, treatment should begin immediately. Arthritis itself will not go away, even if you lead a healthy lifestyle and avoid bad habits. In the absence of qualified medical care, the disease will steadily progress. Treatment of arthritis of the fingers allows you to stop it at an early stage and bring partial relief to the patient.
An integrated approach to treating the disease can preserve finger mobility. This allows a person to work fully without the restrictions that a disability designation implies. The prognosis depends on the responsible attitude of the patient himself to his health.
The sooner he contacts a specialist and begins treatment for hand arthritis according to the recommendations received, the greater his chances of keeping his hands in normal condition.
There are general recommendations on how to treat arthritis in the fingers. Only their complete implementation can guarantee that the fight against the disease will end in success.
The patient must follow these rules:
Such an attitude to treatment will allow the disease to be stopped and put into remission.
A large number of joints are involved in the destructive process of arthritis. To stop the development of the disease and relieve the patient from suffering, it is necessary to use different types of medications. The correct selection of medications can minimize side effects.
Treatment is carried out with the following drugs:
The course of treatment involves the use of creams and ointments, tablets and pills. Some medications are administered intramuscularly or intravenously. If after a month of treatment there is no significant improvement, the patient is prescribed antimalarials or corticosteroids. As a rule, such a decision is made in extreme cases, since such drugs have many side effects.
A course of physiotherapy is a method that is used in combination with a course of drug treatment. Physiological procedures stop the destructive effect of the disease on the joints and significantly improve the metabolic process. Since the joints are under a thin layer of skin, any procedure achieves maximum effect.
As a rule, the patient is prescribed the following procedures:
For minor pain, manual therapy is used. The massage therapist eliminates congestion, relieves spasms and swelling of soft tissues.
No one is immune from arthritis. This disease can affect a person at any age. As you age, the risk of the disease increases significantly. However, following a few simple rules significantly reduces the likelihood of arthritis.
Prevention of arthritis of the fingers involves following these recommendations:
This is quite enough to be sure that arthritis will not occur throughout a person’s life.