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 ...

Hand osteoarthritis is swelling and irritation -- called inflammation--that causes pain and stiffness in the joints of your hands. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. It happens when ...

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 ...

Background Psoriatic disease has a complex effect on bone metabolism, resulting in both pathological bone formation and bone ...

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 ...

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 ...