Many people will experience some form of arthritis in their hand as they age. A common area for arthritis in the hand is in the thumb. Thumb arthritis is often a case of overuse, when the joint gets ...

Mommy's wrist, mother's thumb — the condition has a few different nicknames, but any new parent who's dealing with it will agree on one thing: it can be incredibly painful. According to Dr. Tiffany ...

A 2024 study revealed that prolonged smartphone use, around five hours daily, leads to hand pain, stiffness, and reduced grip strength in university students. Research highlights that both usage ...

A large number of cyclists experience pain in their hands and wrists with cycling. A 1995 study of overuse injuries in cycling found that 31 per cent reported hand/wrist complaints. But does wrist ...

What do politicians, massage therapists, musicians, card dealers, carpenters, cooks and painters have in common? They use their thumbs and twist their wrists a lot and commonly have pain at the base ...

You use your thumbs throughout the day for holding, grasping, and opening objects, typing on your computer or smartphone, flipping through channels on your TV, and more. You’re likely to notice when ...

De Quervain tenosynovitis is pain and swelling in the tendons around your thumb. Specifically, it affects the tendons of two muscles called abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis. De ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- For new parents, lifting and feeding their babies can end up leading to wrist and thumb pain. It's a syndrome doctors have dubbed "mommy wrist". Wednesday, Dr. Morgan Weber, an ...

UT Health San Antonio is one of the limited sites in the U.S. with surgeons trained to perform total thumb arthroplasty procedures.  In the procedure, surgeons replace both sides of the arthritic ...

We’re all on our phones. All the time. For work, for scrolling, for texting, for killing time. And honestly, most of us don’t ...

People who experience wrist/arm/shoulder pain (from whichever of many reasons) when using computers, which mouse/habit has helped you the most? After starting to get strong pain in my arm, work issued ...

Sandy Boyd's BlackBerry had become her passion. Now it has also become a source of pain. About three months ago, the National Association of Manufacturers vice president noticed that, as she started ...