If you always feel thumb pain when handling or lifting objects with your hands, be careful! Pain at the base of the thumb can be an early indication of osteoarthritis in your hands. Alternatively, you may have thumb arthritis or thumb tendinitis. How to relieve this pain and prevent it from getting worse? Let’s find out more with thumb pain specialist clinic.

Thumb Pain will make it difficult for you to hold, grasp, pinch, or do anything else with your hands. Your thumb may also experience swelling, and even very difficult to move. If it happens, just doing simple tasks, like writing, opening a bottle, typing an SMS, and opening a door, can be very torturous.

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What causes thumb pain?

Thumb Arthritis

Thumb arthritis is arthritis that occurs in the joint at the base of the thumb, known as the basal joint. Thumb arthritis is usually a type of osteoarthritis, which is due to wear and tear.

Thumb arthritis can be related to osteoarthritis (which affects the joint and the bone) or rheumatoid arthritis (an auto-immune condition). Thumb pain at your thumb joint caused by arthritis can feel like burning, stabbing, or a more subtle creaking pain.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Pain at your thumb joint can be a symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome pain can feel like weakness, numbness, tingling, or burning at your wrist, in your fingers, or in the joints of your hands.

Thumb Injury or Thumb Sprain

Thumb sprain is an injury to a ligament, which is a soft tissue that connects bones to each other at joints, as opposed to a thumb fracture (break) which is an injury to the bone. Many times, thumb sprains will result from sports injuries or falls. For example, skiing results in many thumb injuries, as does basketball. Or, you may fall and try to catch yourself, bending your thumb in an awkward position.

Thumb Fracture

A break or a crack in any of these bones is called the thumb fracture. The chances of developing arthritis in the hand increases once the thumb gets fractured. The most difficult situation occurs when the bone near the base of the thumb breaks. The amount of time taken to treat the fractured thumb depends on the severity of the condition and it may take up to 3 months for it to heal completely.

Overuse of Thumb

Just like any other joint, the thumb can be overused or overextended. When your thumb is overused, it can feel sore and painful at the joint. A joint that is overused may feel warm and tingling, in addition to being painful.

De Quervain’s tenosynovitis

De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is inflammation of tendons on the side of the wrist at the base of the thumb. These tendons include the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis longus tendons, which extend the joints of the thumb.

Trigger Thumb

Trigger thumb is a condition that causes pain, stiffness, and a sensation of locking or catching when you bend and straighten your thumb. The condition is also known as “stenosing tenosynovitis.” The ring finger and thumb are most often affected by trigger finger, but it can occur in the other fingers, as well.

Thumb Pain Diagnosis

Thumb pain can be diagnosed in several ways, depending on your other symptoms. Common methods of diagnosing thumb pain include: X-ray, MRI, Nerve Conduction Test.

Thumb Pain Treatments

Thumb Pain Treatments include physical therapy, steroid joint injections, topical analgesics for pain relief, prescription pain relief medication, surgery to repair a damaged tendon or joint.

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