The fingers of the upper extremities play an important role in human life, helping him to perform delicate work at home or during the work process. But inflammatory processes in the thin joints also occur frequently, especially in old age, and then the movements become difficult, painful, and the phalanges of the fingers are so bent that they disfigure the hand.
If the knuckles are injured, the causes and treatment are closely related. Let us consider them in more detail.
Fingers hurt - cause for concern
Pain, swelling in the area of the knuckles 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 the tissues adjacent to them. The pain syndrome intensifies not only after physical exercise, but also after a night rest. The mobility of the phalanges is limited, their shape changes, redness in the articular region is visible. 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, in the right, then in the left hand. At the same time, discomfort in the right and left hand does not appear;
- Psoriatic arthritis is characterized by dysfunctions of all joints, they stretch, become red. If the process is caused by infection of the articular components with viruses of various kinds, then a sharp rise in body temperature is added to the signs of local importance, 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, in addition to pain at night, are numbness. Almost all the knuckles of the upper extremities swell, the right and left hand suffer. There is no swelling only in the area of the little finger;
- When the destruction of cartilage tissue begins, osteoarthritis, then painful sensations appear after performing physical work, sitting at night. In this case, first a joint can be damaged, 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, grasping the metacarpal bone;
- Severe pain is a sign of the development of osteomyelitis, 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 affected area becomes dark red, you can not touch it, because the joints of the fingers are immediately pierced by acute pain;
- Sometimes the pathology appears only on the fingertips. Ulnar nerve neuropathies are manifested by painful sensations in the left hand, fingertips become numb, become white. This is due to the fact that blood circulation is impaired in the fingertips, they do not get proper nutrition;
- Hypothermia of the upper extremities responds with excruciating joint pain, accompanied by cyanosis or severe redness of the affected area;
- With inflammation of the ligament of the thumb, de Quervain disease, every movement of the hand causes a painful attack;
- Frequent upper extremity injuries include dislocations, accompanied by sharp pain;
- People who spend a lot of time on a computer keyboard tend to catch the wrist nerve, which is reflected by pain. Also, occupational pathologies include tremor disease, the signs of which are numbness of the fingers, periods of painful sensations.
The reasons listed show that the toe joints of the upper extremities are most affected by any inflammatory disease of a viral or traumatic nature.
How to help your fingers if they hurt
There are different methods on how to treat wrist joints, they are all effective in combination.
Medical procedures will reduce the pain
Best of all, painful processes are removed by a variety of medical procedures.
Regular massage helps improve peripheral blood circulation when the joints of the hands receive adequate nourishment and oxygen. During a session consisting of stroking, rubbing, mixing, shaking, you can do the procedure for one finger or all at once.
Microwave therapy, when exposed to ultra-high frequency electromagnetic fields, creates conditions for dilation of blood vessels, normalization of the passage of nerve impulses and reduction of smooth muscle spasms. The effectiveness of the procedure is associated with its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic effect. Local barotherapy is performed using devices that create high or low pressure. Usually this procedure is used to treat bone pathologies associated with neurological diseases when other methods do not help.
To improve metabolic processes, to eliminate pain, electrophoresis can be done, where the necessary medicine is injected into the joints of the hands using current force.
Medication is the basis of therapy when your fingers hurt
However, it can not be done without the use of pharmaceutical preparations in the treatment of joint diseases:
- Non-steroidal medications will help relieve swelling, reduce pain;
- If the disease is caused by a malfunction of the immune system, then strong prednisolone group drugs are needed;
- Oils that have a local anesthetic effect are useful for relieving unpleasant symptoms with minor inflammations;
- Chondroprotective drugs restore joint function.
It is possible to eliminate some of the causes of joint pathologies only with antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones, for rheumatoid arthritis, hypouricemic agents that remove excess uric acid salts for gout, psoriasis.
Traditional medicine recipes 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, used as a compress for sore joints, will gradually soothe them. Applying it every day, alternating with rubbing fir oil in a week will make you healthy.
- Compresses for diseased bones from an 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 ease the discomfort.
- Gruel from minced onion is used effectively to treat diseases of the joints with bandages. 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.
- A pre-prepared solution of twenty grams of celandine, one liter of olive oil, infused for two weeks, 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. The positive result will be felt within a week.
Systematic implementation of therapeutic measures will help your fingers to work and be healthy.
Recommendations for the prevention of joint pain
- Organizing proper nutrition can save 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 smoked foods, spicy. By eating seafood, vegetables, especially cauliflower, radishes, lettuce, as well as consuming pomegranate, figs, ginger, adding olive, flaxseed oil, you can improve bone condition, remove excess salts, toxins from the body.
- Joints should be given rest, a variety of easy work, more often to perform aerobics for them. Working on a computer, you need to cook, shake your brushes every half hour in order to improve blood microcirculation.
- When working with vibrating instruments, it is necessary to protect the hands of the limbs with gloves that support them firmly.
By taking care of your hands, preventing hypothermia will prevent pain.