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Pain in the hand and wrist can cause significant disability and affect the function of the hand. The pain may be acute, as a consequence of an injury, causing either a sprain of the multiple ligaments found in this region or a fracture of one of the eight bonPain in the hand can cause significant disability
Pain in the hand and wrist can cause significant disability and affect the function of the hand. The pain may be acute, as a consequence of an injury, causing either a sprain of the multiple ligaments found in this region or a fracture of one of the eight bones of the wrist (known as carpal bones), mostly the scaphoid bone or small bones of the hand. Occasionally acute pain in the wrist and hand could also be infective in origin principally as soft tissue or joint infection. In other cases, wrist and hand pain can arise from inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or gout. Arthritis In elderly patients, pain in the region of the thumb and wrist mostly results from wear and tear or arthritis in the base of the thumb or from the small joints of the fingers. The thumb contributes to 80 per cent of the hand function, so it comes without saying that anycondition negatively affecting the thumb function will be detrimental to general hand use. Arthritis of the thumb base is a very common condition affecting mostly women. There is evidence of this condition in 80 per cent of patients aged over 80. In this condition the pain is worse with gripping, twisting or turning... Read more
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