The fingers of the upper limbs play an important role in human life, helping him to perform delicate work at home or during the labor 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 finger joints hurt, the causes and treatment are closely related. Let's look at them in more detail.
Sore fingers - 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 the tissues adjacent to them. The pain syndrome intensifies not only after exercise, but also after a night's rest. The mobility of the phalanges is limited, their shape changes, redness in the joint area is visible. In rheumatoid arthritis, the phalanges of the fingers, such as the middle finger and forefinger, swell and become inflamed. First, the joint hurts, for example, on the right, then on the left hand. At the same time, there is no discomfort from the right and left hand;
- Psoriatic arthritis is characterized by dysfunction of all joints, they stretch, redden. If the process is caused by infection of the joint components with viruses of different types, then to the signs of local significance is added a sharp rise in body temperature, accompanied by subsequent intoxication of the body. In children, the symptoms of infectious arthritis are more pronounced than in adults;
- In stenotic ligamentitis, the main symptoms, in addition to pain at night, are tingling. Almost all the joints of the fingers of the upper limbs are swollen, the right and left hands suffer. There is no swelling only in the area of the little finger;
- When the destruction of cartilage tissue begins, osteoarthritis, then there are painful sensations after physical activity, fading at night. In this case, one joint may be damaged first, 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, capturing the metacarpal bone;
- Severe pain is a sign of developing 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 immediately pierce with sharp pain;
- Sometimes the pathology manifests itself only in the fingertips. The neuropathies of the ulnar nerve are manifested by painful sensations in the left hand, the fingertips tingle, turn white. This is due to the fact that blood circulation is disturbed at the fingertips, they do not receive proper nutrition;
- Hypothermia of the upper extremities reacts with unbearable pain in the joints, accompanied by cyanosis or severe redness of the affected area;
- In inflammation of the ligament of the thumb, de Kerwen's disease, every movement of the hand causes a painful attack;
- Common injuries to the upper limbs include sprains accompanied by sharp pain;
- People who spend a lot of time on a computer keyboard tend to pinch the nerve in the wrist, which is reflected in aching pain. Also, occupational pathologies include vibration disease, the signs of which are numbness of the fingers, attacks of painful sensations.
The listed reasons show that the joints of the fingers 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 the joints of the hands, they are all effective in combination.
Medical procedures will reduce the pain
The best thing is that painful processes are removed through various medical procedures.
Regular massage helps to improve peripheral blood circulation when the joints of the hands receive adequate nutrition and oxygen. During a session consisting of stroking, rubbing, kneading, 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 related to its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic effect. Local barotherapy is performed with the help of equipment that creates high or low pressure. This procedure is usually 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 performed, where the necessary drug is injected into the joints of the hands using a current.
Medications are at the heart of therapy when your fingers hurt
However, it can not be done without the use of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of joint diseases:
- Non-steroidal drugs will help relieve puffiness, reduce pain;
- If the disease is caused by a malfunction of the immune system, then powerful drugs from the prednisolone group are needed;
- Ointments that have a local anesthetic effect are useful for relieving unpleasant symptoms with mild inflammation;
- Chondroprotective drugs restore the function of the joints.
It is possible to eliminate some of the causes of joint pathologies only with antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones, rheumatoid arthritis, hypouricemics, which remove excess uric acid salts in gout, psoriasis.
The recipes of traditional medicine will save you from pain
The main methods of relieving joint pain, developed by traditional healers, are related to the application of compresses, rubbing the affected area.
- Sea or table salt, heated in a pan, used as compresses for joint pain, will gradually soothe them. Applying it daily, alternating with rubbing fir oil for a week, will make you 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. Burdock leaf applied to the joints will relieve the discomfort.
- Grated onion puree 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 after a month.
- Prepared in advance a solution of twenty grams of celandine, a liter of olive oil, infused for two weeks, rubbed with massaging movements in the morning and evening.
- The same amount of copper, glycerin, alcohol, iodine is mixed thoroughly, rubbed with this mixture from diseased areas. The positive result will be felt within a week.
Systematic application of therapeutic measures will help you make your fingers healthy and healthy.
Recommendations for the prevention of joint pain
- The organization of proper nutrition can save from pathologies of the skeletal system. To do this, it is necessary to limit the use of sweets, flour, dairy products high in fat, salty, spicy smoked foods. Eating seafood, vegetables, especially cauliflower, radishes, lettuce, as well as consuming pomegranate, figs, ginger, adding olive, linseed oil, you can improve the condition of bones, remove excess salts, toxins from the body.
- The joints should be given rest, a variety of light work, more often to perform gymnastics for them. When working on a computer, you need to knead, shake the brushes every half hour to improve blood microcirculation.
- When working with vibrating tools, it is necessary to protect the hands of the limbs with gloves that support them tightly.
Hand care, prevention of hypothermia will prevent pain.