Every person carries out hundreds of routing operations with their hands. What if one morning you were to wake up and realize that you have a pain in your hand, which makes it difficult for you to clean teeth or requires somebody’s help to carry your groceries from a store? All of sudden life becomes much more complicated and restricted if a human loses functionality of hands.
What are the illnesses of a wrist joint and a hand?
Most of the illnesses are posttraumatic, including:
- Tendinitis
- Tenovaginitis
- Bursitis
- Synovitis
Those illnesses are inflammatory and influence growth of degenerative-dystrophic processes in a joint causing osteoarthrosis of hands or arthrosis of fingers and wrist contractures.
Now think about your occupation. Do you spend a long time in front of a computer, or you do a lot of detail-oriented work with your hands that requires precision, or you drive a car for many years and have noticed pain in your hand? If so, it could be a sign of tunnel syndrome. It is a neurological symptom that develops as a result of nerves being jammed for a long period time, and its manifestations include:
- Hand tremor and numbness
- Plainnessofskin
- Loss of tactical senses
- Feeling of creeps, pins and needles, burns in a hand
But if you experience pain in your fingers or pain in your wrist for some continuous time, however, there are no old posttraumatic symptoms, then it could be an indication that the problem lies somewhere else.
A wrist joint and a hand are prone to autoimmune and rheumatologic processes:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Gout
- Psoriasis
- Systemiclupus
- Ulcerative colitis, Grohn’s disease
If pain in a wrist joint or a hand appears in any of the situations listed above it will be accompanied by one or more of the following symptoms:
- Swollenness of joints
- Redness of skin over the joint
- Puffiness of a wrist/hand
- Stiffness in movements in mornings
- Less pain in idle position; pain increases with physical activity
A real cause of pain in a wrist joint or a hand can be established only by an experienced orthopedist-traumatologist that we have at The Rudenko Clinic.
What causes inflammatory pathologies in a wrist joint and a hand?
These types of diseases are closely connected to the specifics of functionality and physiology of that particular part of an agile and freely moving mechanism of an upper limb. Many small joints, mobile ligaments, narrow and vulnerable channels – all are prone to development of inflammatory processes.
Total of joints:
- a complex wrist (radiocarpal) joint
Consists of a radius bone, an elbow bone and a proximal row of wrist joint bones
- low-mobility joints between wrist bones
Eight bones of a wrist lined up in two rows and interconnected by ligaments
- carpometacarpal joints
Five joints consisting of a distal row of bones and bases of metacarpal bones
- metacarpophalangeal joints
Five joints made of five heads of metacarpal bones and bases of proximal bones
- phalangeal joints
One phalangeal joint in a big finger; two small phalangeal joins in each of the rest fingers.
A ligament structure of a wrist and a hand is a very complex mechanism. Ligaments are located in all areas of a limb – in a palm area, in a backhand area, medial and lateral areas, as well as between bones.
A muscle frame of a wrist and a hand is a structure consisting of approximately 35 muscles.
Mostly, they are short muscles responsible for strength and agility of a hand.
What are the illnesses and methods of treatment for a wrist and a hand?
Before starting a treatment, we examine a patient and assign correct diagnostics. In our practice, we mostly rely on an X-ray of joints, ultrasound examinations and lab tests. In complex clinical circumstances, we can use a computer tomography or a magnetic-resonance imaging.
A treatment of a wrist joint and a hand can be conservative or surgical.
A conservative treatment includes:
- medical therapy, particularly useful for rheumatology diseases
- a wrist brace preventing excessive pressure on a joint and ensuring its stable position
- a massage
- a physiotherapy
A surgical intervention is used in a limited number of cases and must be discussed beforehand with a patient. Every case is considered individually, taking into account unique development of a disease and requests made by a patient.
The Rudenko Clinic is a medical centre where professional doctors-orthopedists with vast experience will help you to forget about pain in a hand. Our doctors always use an individual approach. We care about your health and we will answer all your questions when call any of the numbers provided below: