The irreversible processes of age become the cause of various diseases.Degenerative processes affect the joints, leading to discomfort, deformations and other manifestations.Older people are often injured in the finger joints, and the motor function of the fingers is disturbed.In the presence of such symptoms, medical assistance should be sought to identify the cause and to prescribe later the pathology.
Anatomical characteristics
The human skeleton has more than 300 joints.The smallest joint devices are found in the fingers.The joints of the joints are small and the fitting shell is thin.Due to the anatomical properties of the structure, these joints are more prone to pathologies.
The joint is the joint of the bones with a connective tissue that is filled with synovial fluid, hyaline cartilage, synovial shell and a potato (joint bag) full of an arthritis.The finger is formed from three walls - proximal, medium and distal.Each phalanx is related to the following.
The appearance of joint pain can indicate serious diseases in the body.
The reasons for appearance
The pain of the joints differs in intensity and localization.There are two types of pain: mechanical and inflammatory that can be provoked:
- Rheumatoid arthritis.With morning pain.
- Psoriatic arthritis.It affects the skin tissue and the discomfort is localized in distal phalanx.The swelling appears, a change in the color of the skin (redness) on the thumb of the hands.
- Infectious arthritis.Intense long pains (up to several days).Local hyperthermia is observed, heat and chills are possible.
- Gout attack.People should be subjected to the older age group because of impaired metabolism processes.It is characterized by burning pain in the pain in the pathology.
- Osteoarthrosis.Due to age -related hormonal disorders, it progresses in women.The clinical picture is the finger pain syndrome, a change in the anatomical structure of the fingers (thickening of the joints).
- Stenostering ligamentitis, similar to the clinical picture of arthritis and arthrosis, affects the ring -shaped ligaments of the joints.The brush and fingers are painful.
- Tunnel syndrome.The pain appears on the index of the left hand.
Risarthrosis can also cause pain in the fingers.It develops the background of overstrain, infectious processes, injuries or severe intoxication.
Pain complicates the implementation of simple movements in everyday life and at work.
Illness
The fingers' joints violate the following diseases:
- Rheumatoid genesis arthritis.The most common pathology that affects small joints.This disease is affected by the symmetrical joints of the upper limbs.An inflammatory process is observed, and they feel dense growth in the palpation - lumps.The course of the disease replaces the beats with remission.In advanced conditions, the hand is deformed.
- Osteoarthrosis and polyosteoarthrosis - diseases are more often observed in women over 40 years of age.The causes of the body's hormonal background (reducing the production of estrogen hormone), inheritance, excessive loads and other factors.Pathology is deformed by the fingers.
- Gout develops in the background of metabolism (protein metabolism) and uric acids accumulate in the joints.In the first phase of the pathology, the fingers were affected and then the hands.Severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin in the area of inflammation.Pathologies are more common for men over 40 years of age.
Other
Depending on the pathology, the joints of the fingers may be harmful in the morning.Movements can be accompanied by typical clicks (symptoms of arthritis).In the Phalanx area of the index and ring fingers, inflammation develops.
The joints can harm the gout in the morning.The inflammatory process develops in the thumb, accompanied by swelling of the clinical picture, a change in the skin.
A sign of various pathologies of the joints may be pain after sleeping on the fingers.During pregnancy, sharp hormonal changes in women's body can cause pain.
The numbness occurs in people of all ages.This symptom complicates a normal lifestyle.In a timely appeal to a specialist, it helps to avoid complications.Causes of numbness can serve:
- voltage;
- The cervical spine osteochondrosis;
- Pathology of the vascular system;
- Carpal Valve Syndrome - Herning the wrist nerve results in impaired nerve and blood circulation, causing numbness.
Diagnostic methods
The following symptoms can be observed with pathologies of the finger joints:
- deformation processes in the area of inflammation;
- Tact pain;
- Intense pain syndrome;
- redness of the skin;
- hyperthermia;
- the difficulty of movement;
- inflammatory processes and swelling near the affected area;
- the appearance of lumps around the joints;
- The pain is wavy, intense and insignificant at night - day.
After the initial inspection, laboratory and hardware methods are carried out for the patient's examination:
- Biochemical blood test;
- General blood test and urine;
- radiographic examination;
- MRI;
- Blood is tested for the presence of rheumatoid factor, antibraptocococcal antibodies, purines.
The neglected condition of the pathology can lead to disability, so pain should not be ignored.Fingers' joints hurt as a result of other pathologies, so when the symptoms appear, there is no need to delay the doctor.
Treatment
After the diagnosis, medical measures are prescribed.The classic treatment of all diseases when they are based on fingers and medicines.Therapy is designed to remove the main symptoms of the finger disease with the finger's finger: inflammation and pain.Show the LFK and therapeutic massage.
Drugs
Medication treatment includes: analgesics, non -seertoid anti -inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), autoimmune pathologies - hormones, topical drugs - gels, ointments, creams.
Designate:
- Nsids;
- corticosteroid drugs;
- Local drugs.
In emergency cases where the pain syndrome is very severe, medicines are used.
If necessary, drugs are prescribed that restore the cartilage tissue.
Practical therapy and massage
A specialist selects the exercises.LFC strengthens the joints of the fingers, improves blood circulation, and accelerates the healing process in the affected areas.
Massage activities are performed during the remission period (we do not recommend them during the acute period).The massage procedure improves blood supply, reduces pain and swelling.
A comprehensive approach to the treatment of pathology allows you to return to your usual lifestyle in a short period of time.
Diet
Such pathologies should adhere to dietary nutrition.In acute periods, when the fingers are injured, the use of cakes, sweet, salt, salted and pickled foods, smoked foods, high calories of dairy products should be avoided.Do not consume strong tea, meat, spinach, salt.Sour -Milk products can only be incorporated into the diet (low fat).
Folk treatment
In addition to drug treatment, conventional medical methods are allowed.
At home, if the fingers are painful (especially during the aggravation phase), you can make compression from a mixture of vodka, aloe and honey.The compression duration is 3 hours.
You can apply the oil balm.Add vitamin to the olive or sesame oil, mix.Rub the oil into sore areas.
Allens purple pain tincture: pour a glass of flower, pour 200 ml of vodka, stick in a dark place for two weeks.Rub the inflammatory zone before going to bed.
Brusnik infusion reduces pain due to worsening of diseases.Apply to 200 ml twice daily.
Prevention
To avoid the development of pathologies, the main preventive measures accompanied by the unpleasant feelings of the joints:
- sports;
- proper nutrition;
- Regular massage activities.
With a healthy lifestyle, you can avoid many problems.