The fingers of the upper extremities play an important role in human life, helping him to do sensitive work at home or during childbirth. But inflammatory processes in the thin joints also occur frequently, especially in old age, and then the movements become heavy, painful, and the phalanges of the fingers are so bent as to disturb the hand.
If the finger joints hurt, the causes and treatment are closely related. Let's look at them in more detail.
Fingers hurt - a cause of discomfort
Pain, swelling in the joints of the fingers can be caused by various reasons:
- All types of arthritis often affect the phalanges of the fingers. Then not only the bones become inflamed, but also the tissues next to them. The pain syndrome intensifies not only after physical exertion, but also after a night's rest. The mobility of the phalanges is limited, their shape changes, redness is visible in the joint region. In rheumatoid arthritis, the phalanges of the fingers, such as the middle and index fingers, swell and become inflamed. First, the joint hurts, for example, on the right side, and then on the left hand. At the same time, there is no discomfort on the right and left arm;
- Psoriatic arthritis is characterized by dysfunctions of all joints, they stretch, become red. If the process is caused by infection of the joint components with viruses of different types, then a sudden increase in body temperature is added to the signs of local significance, accompanied by subsequent intoxication of the body. In children, the symptoms of infectious arthritis are more pronounced than in adults;
- For stenotic ligamentitis, the main symptoms, other than pain at night, are numbness. Almost all the finger joints of the upper extremities swell, the right and left hands suffer. There is no swelling just in the little finger area;
- When the destruction of cartilage tissue begins, osteoarthritis, then after physical work, painful sensations appear that calm down at night. In that case, one joint can be damaged first, and then gradually the pain covers all the phalanges of the hands. Sometimes the disease affects the articular base of the thumb, which then begins to deform, catching the metacarpal bone;
- Severe pain is a sign of the development of osteomyelitis, which is manifested by the formation of a purulent-necrotic process;
- Traumatic pathologies lead to inflammation of the joint capsules, accumulation of excess synovial fluid in them. The damaged area becomes dark red, you cannot touch it because the knuckles are immediately pierced with acute pain;
- Sometimes the pathology manifests itself only in the fingertips. Ulnar nerve neuropathies are manifested by painful sensations in the left hand, the tips of the fingers become numb, become white. This is due to the fact that the blood circulation is weakened at the tips of the fingers, they do not receive proper nutrition;
- Upper extremity hypothermia responds to unbearable joint pain, accompanied by cyanosis, or severe redness of the affected area;
- With inflammation of the ligament of the thumb, de Quervain's disease, every movement of the hand causes a painful attack;
- Common injuries to the upper extremities include sprains followed by sharp pain;
- People who spend a lot of time at the computer keyboard tend to pinch the joint nerve, which is reflected in excruciating pain. Also, occupational pathologies include vibration diseases, whose signs are numbness of the fingers, attacks of painful sensations.
These reasons indicate that the finger joints of the upper extremities are most affected by any inflammatory diseases of viral or traumatic nature.
How to help your fingers if they hurt
There are different methods of treating wrists, and they are all effective in combination.
Medical procedures will reduce the pain
Best of all, painful processes are removed by various medical procedures.
Regular massage helps to improve peripheral blood circulation when the wrists get proper nutrition and oxygen. During a session consisting of stroking, rubbing, squeezing, shaking, you can report the procedure to one finger or all at once.
Microwave therapy, when exposed to ultra-high frequency electromagnetic fields, creates conditions for blood vessels to dilate, normalize the passage of nerve impulses, and reduce smooth muscle spasms. The effectiveness of the procedure is associated with its anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antispasmodic effect. Local barotherapy is performed using equipment that creates high or low pressure. Usually this procedure is used to treat bone pathologies associated with neurological diseases when other methods do not help.
In order to improve metabolic processes, eliminate pain, electrophoresis can be performed, where the necessary medicine is injected into the wrists with the help of instantaneous force.
Medications are the basis of therapy when your fingers hurt
However, without the use of pharmaceutical preparations in the treatment of joint diseases can not:
- Nonsteroidal medications will help relieve swelling, reduce pain;
- If the disease is caused by a malfunctioning immune system, then strong drugs from the prednisolone group are needed;
- Ointments that have a local anesthetic effect are useful for relieving unpleasant symptoms with minor inflammation;
- Chondroprotective drugs restore the working function of the joints.
It is possible to remove some causes of joint pathologies only with antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones, for rheumatoid arthritis, hypuric agents that remove excess uric acid salt in gout, psoriasis.
Recipes of traditional medicine will save you from pain
The main methods for relieving joint pain, developed by traditional healers, are associated with the application of compresses, rubbing the affected area.
- Sea or table salt heated in a pan, which is used as a compress for sore joints, will gradually soothe them. With daily application, alternating with rubbing fir oil for a week, you will be healthy.
- Compresses for diseased bones from the infusion of burdock leaves, as well as a decoction of wormwood, are applied for fifteen to twenty minutes. A burdock leaf applied to the joints will alleviate the discomfort.
- Grated onion gruel is effectively used to treat joint diseases with compresses. Cabbage leaf also has a beneficial effect, strengthens the components of the musculoskeletal system.
- Effective treatment - rubbing the affected area with apple cider vinegar, diluted in half with water, will give a positive result in a month.
- The solution prepared in advance of twenty grams of celandine, a liter of olive oil, infused for two weeks, is rubbed with massage movements in the morning and evening.
- The same amount of honey, glycerin, alcohol, iodine is thoroughly mixed, rubbed with this mixture of diseased areas. A positive result will be felt within a week.
Systematic application of therapeutic measures will help keep your fingers healthy and healthy.
Recommendations for the prevention of joint pain
- Organizing a proper diet can save you from pathologies of the skeletal system. To do this, it is necessary to limit the use of sweet, flour, dairy products with a high fat content, salty, spicy smoked foods. By consuming seafood, vegetables, especially cauliflower, radishes, lettuce, as well as consuming pomegranates, figs, ginger, adding olive, flaxseed oil, you can improve bone condition, remove excess salt, toxins from the body.
- It is necessary to give the joints a rest, various light works, to perform gymnastics for them more often. Working at the computer you have to knead, shake the brushes every half hour to improve blood microcirculation.
- When working with vibrating instruments, it is necessary to protect the hands of the extremities with gloves that firmly support them.
Taking care of your hands, preventing hypothermia will prevent pain.