When it becomes a challenge to open a jar of jam, it’s often not the lid that’s the cause – it’s your joints. Arthrosis in ...

Ultrasound-detected dactylitis lesions may help identify patients with psoriasis who are at risk for psoriatic arthritis and ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

Tendons surrounding the finger and toe joints control the movement of the digits. A sheath, called the synovial membrane, surrounds the tendons. If the synovial membrane becomes inflamed ...

[14] Several studies have addressed volar synovitis so far. [11,27,28] In 2004, Hoving et al stated that in hand joints small amount of fluid is best visualized from volar side with fingers in ...

MOST of us don’t give our joints much thought – but our bodies have around 350 of them, and they’re pretty important. From the tiny ones in our toes to our shoulders, hips and knees, our ...

In fact, cracking fingers has been studied for over 60 ... Your knuckles have a slippery fluid inside the joint (synovial fluid). This fluid helps you bend your knuckles smoothly.

Osteoarthritis is a common chronic health condition that is characterised by joint pain and restricted movement. The main ...

American College of Rheumatology. Rheumatoid arthritis. American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Gout in hands. Wakasugi T, Saito K. Synovial cyst of the little finger originating from a degenerative ...

six of the subjects in this study had arthralgia of the knee joint, (3) seven of the subjects also underwent ultrasound examination of the hand during routine patient care, which did not demonstrate ...