Irreversible processes in the body become the cause of several diseases.Degenerative processes affect the joints, which leads to unpleasant sensations, deformations and other manifestations.Often in the elderly, the fingertips hurt, the motor function of the fingers is altered.In the presence of such symptoms, it is necessary to seek medical help to identify the cause and prescribe the subsequent treatment of pathology.
Anatomical characteristics
There are more than 300 joints in the human skeleton.The smallest articular devices are found in the fingers.The surface of the joints is small, the connective cover is thin.Due to the anatomical characteristics of the structure, these joints are more susceptible to pathologies.
The joint is the joint of the bones with a connective tissue, which consists of a joint cavity full of synovial fluid, hyaline cartilage, a synovial cover and a bourgeois (joint bag).The finger is formed from three Falanges: proximal, medium and distal.Each phalange is connected to the next using the Board.
The appearance of joint pain may indicate serious diseases in the body.
The reasons for appearance
The joint pain differs in intensity and location.There are two types of pain: mechanical and inflammatory, which can be caused:
- Rheumatoid arthritis.Accompanied by morning pain.
- Psoriatic arthritis.It affects skin tissue, unpleasant sensations are located in a distal phalanx.Swelling appears, a change in skin color (redness with bluish) in the thumbs of the hands.
- Infectious arthritis.It is accompanied by intense long pains (up to several days).Local hyperthermia is observed, heat and chills are possible.
- Gonto attack.People are subject to the elderly category due to deteriorated metabolism processes in the body.Characterized by burning pain in the field of pathology.
- OsteoarthrosisProgresses in women due to age -related hormonal disorders.The clinical picture is pain syndrome, a change in the anatomical structure of fingers (articulations thickening).
- Ligamentitis with stenoster, which is similar in a clinical image with arthritis and osteoarthritis, affects the ring -shaped ligaments of the joints.Brush movements and fingers are painful.
- Tunnel syndrome.The pain appears on the index finger of the left hand.
Rizastrosis can also cause fingers pain.It develops in the context of excessive excess, infectious processes, severe injuries or poisoning.
Pain complicates the implementation of simple movements in everyday life and at work.
Diseases
Finger joints harm the following diseases:
- Arthritis of the rheumatoid genesis.The most common pathology that affects small joints.With this disease, the symmetric joints of the fingers of the upper extremities are affected.An inflammatory process is observed, dense growths are felt in palpation: nodules.The course of alternating disease with episodes with remissions.In advanced conditions, the hand is deformed.
- Osteoarthrosis and potoarthrosis: diseases are more frequently observed in women over 40 years.The causes are a violation of the hormonal body of the body (reducing the production of estrogen hormone), inheritance, excessive loads and other factors.With the pathology, the fingertips are deformed.
- Gota develops in the context of metabolic disorders (protein metabolism) and uric acid salts accumulate in the joints.In the first stage of the pathology, the fingers are affected and then the hands.It is accompanied by severe pain, swelling and a change in skin color in the area of inflammation.Pathologies are more subject to men over 40 years.
Other
Depending on the pathology, fingertips can hurt in the morning.The movements can be accompanied by characteristic clicks (arthritis symptom).In the index phalanx area and ring fingers, inflammation is developed.
The joints can hurt in the morning with drop.The inflammatory process is developed in the thumbs, the clinical image is accompanied by swelling, a change in skin color.
A sign of several joint pathologies can be pain in the fingertips after sleep.During pregnancy, acute hormonal changes in women's body can cause pain.
Numbness occurs in people of all ages.This symptom complicates a normal lifestyle.The appropriate attractiveness to a specialist will help avoid complications.Numbness reasons can serve:
- stress;
- osteochondrosis of the cervical column;
- Vascular system pathology;
- Carpian valve syndrome: the pinched wrist nerve leads to deteriorated innervation and blood circulation, which causes numbness.
Diagnostic methods
With pathologies of fingertips, the following symptoms are observed:
- Deformation processes in the field of inflammation;
- Palpation pain;
- Intensive pain syndrome;
- skin redness;
- hyperthermia;
- Difficulty of movement;
- inflammatory processes and swelling near the affected area;
- the appearance of nodules around the joints;
- Pain attacks are similar to waves, intense at night and insignificant, during the day.
After the initial inspection, laboratory and hardware methods are carried out to examine the patient:
- biochemical blood analysis;
- General blood and urine analysis;
- radiographic exam;
- Magnetic resonance;
- Blood is examined to detect the presence of a rheumatoid factor, antibraptacocic antibodies, purines.
A careless state of pathology can lead to disability, so pain should not be ignored.Finger joints hurt as a result of other pathologies, therefore, when symptoms appear, it is necessary not to delay the doctor.
Treatment
After diagnosis, medical measures are prescribed.The classic treatment of all diseases, when joints on the fingers are based on taking medications.Therapy aims to eliminate the main symptoms of finger's disease in the arm: inflammation and pain.Show LFK and therapeutic massage.
Medications
Drug treatment includes: analgesics, non -steroid anti -inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), with autoimmune pathologies - hormones, local drugs - gels, ointments, creams.
Name:
- NSAID;
- corticosteroid drugs;
- Local drugs.
In emergency cases, when pain syndrome is very severe, drugs are used.
If necessary, medications that restore the cartilage tissue are prescribed.
Exercise and massage therapy
A set of exercises is selected by a specialist.LFC strengthens fingertips, improves blood circulation, accelerates the recovery process in affected areas.
The massage sessions are carried out during the remission period (in the acute period, it is not recommended to do them).The massage procedure improves blood supply, reduces pain and swelling.
An integral approach to the treatment of pathology will allow you to return to the usual lifestyle in a short time.
Diet
With such pathologies, it is necessary to adhere to dietary nutrition.In acute periods, when the fingertips hurt, it is necessary to avoid the use of cakes, sweets, salt, salty and pickled dishes, smoked foods, high -qualification dairy products.It should not consume strong tea, meat, spinach, accelerates.SOUR -Milk products can only be included in the only (low fat) diet.
Popular treatment
In addition to drug treatment, it is allowed to use traditional medicine methods.
At home, if fingertips are painful (especially in the exacerbation phase), you can make compresses from a mixture of vodka, aloe and honey.The compress duration is 3 hours.
You can apply oil balm.Add vitamin A to olive or sesame oil, mix.Rub the oil in the painful areas.
Allens The pain tincture of the lilacs: pour a glass of flowers, pour 200 ml of vodka, insist in a dark place for two weeks.Before bedtime, rub in the inflammation zone.
Brusnik infusion reduces pain with disease exacerbation.Apply 2 times a day for 200 ml.
Prevention
The main preventive measures to avoid the development of pathologies, accompanied by unpleasant sensations in the joints, are:
- sports;
- adequate nutrition;
- Regular massage sessions.
Adhering to a healthy lifestyle, you can avoid many problems.