Recovery starts with a few weeks in a cast, followed by several weeks in a splint and physical therapy. Many people notice improvements in pain and thumb function within three months, though it can ...

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What is viscosupplementation treatment for arthritis? During viscosupplementation treatment for arthritis, your health care provider injects hyaluronic acid into your joint. This thick fluid may help ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may make it difficult to complete everyday tasks. Assistive devices, also called adaptive devices, may make these tasks easier and help manage pain. Some assistive ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is an epithelial tumour of the skin. It seldom metastasizes, but has the potential for local invasion and destruction. It usually occurs as one or several small pearly ...

I am very grateful.’’ It is legal for bowlers to wear splints on their non-bowling hands and Kuhnemann insists the neatly fitting covering he will wear on his thumb will not be a distraction.

Iran has unveiled an underground naval base capable of taking on "enemies big and small". Footage broadcast on state TV shows a large number of speedboats lined up in what appears to be an ...

There are several types available, including wrist splints, night braces ... is multi-purpose and effective for arthritis, carpal tunnel, basal thumb arthritis, tendonitis or tendinopathy ...

Karl-Anthony Towns has a bone chip in his sprained right thumb, Stefan Bondy of The New York Post reports. The injury came on Monday, when Towns' New York Knicks lost to the Detroit Pistons.

Matt Kuhnemann is in serious doubt for the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka after the recalled spinner hurt his thumb playing for Brisbane Heat. The left-arm offspinner ran from the ground in agony on ...

In addition to the surgeries the woman had on her left hand, she had rheumatoid nodules removed from the right thumb and carpal tunnel surgery on both sides. This image of the Japanese woman’s right ...