Irreversible processes in the body with age become the cause of various diseases.Degenerative processes affect the joints, which causes unpleasant sensations, deformations and other manifestations.Often in the elderly, the finger joints hurt, the motor function of the fingers is disturbed.In the presence of such symptoms, it is necessary to request medical aid to identify the cause and to prescribe the subsequent treatment of the pathology.
Anatomical characteristics
There are more than 300 joints in the human skeleton.The smallest joint devices are located in the fingers.The surface of the joints is small, the connective shell is thin.Due to the anatomical characteristics of the structure, these joints are more sensitive to pathologies.
The joint is the bone joint with a connective tissue, which consists of a joint cavity filled with synovial fluid, hyalin cartilage, a synovial shell and a bud (joint bag).The finger is formed from three phalanxes - proximal, medium and distal.Each phalanx is connected to the following using the joint.
The appearance of joint pain can report serious illnesses in the body.
The reasons for appearance
The pain in the joints 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 tissues, unpleasant sensations are located in a distal phalanx.Swelling appears, a change in skin color (redness with bluish) on the thumbs of the hands.
- Infectious arthritis.It is accompanied by long intense pain (up to several days).Local hyperthermia is observed, heat and chills are possible.
- Goutteful attack.People are subjected to a higher age category due to altered metabolism process in the body.Characterized by burning pain in the field of pathology.
- Osteoarthrosis.It progresses in women due to age -related hormonal disorders.The clinical picture is pain syndrome in the fingers, a change in the anatomical structure of the fingers (thickening of the joints).
- The ligamenttitis with stenostic, which is similar in a clinical picture with arthritis and osteoarthritis, affects the ligaments in the shape of a ring of the joints.The movements of the brush and the fingers are painful.
- Tunnel syndrome.The pain appears on the index of the left hand.
Rizartrose can also cause pain in the fingers.It develops in the context of infectious processes, injuries or serious poisoning.
Pain complicates the implementation of simple movements in daily life and at work.
Diseases
The finger joints harm the following diseases:
- Arthritis of the rheumatoid genesis.The most common pathology that affects small joints.With this disease, the symmetrical joints of the fingers of the upper limbs are affected.An inflammatory process is observed, dense growths are felt on palpation - nodules.The evolution of the disease alternates with episodes with remissions.Under advanced conditions, the hand is distorted.
- Osteoarthrosis and polyosteoarthrosis - Diseases are more often observed in women over 40 years of age.The causes constitute a violation of the hormonal context of the body (reducing the production of estrogen hormones), heredity, excessive charges and other factors.With pathology, the finger joints are distorted.
- Gout is developing in the context of metabolic disorders (protein metabolism) and uric acid salts accumulate in the joints.At the first stage of pathology, the fingers are affected, then the hands.It is accompanied by intense pain, swelling and change in skin color in the field of inflammation.Pathologies are more often subject to men over 40 years of age.
Other
Depending on pathology, finger joints can hurt in the morning.The movements can be accompanied by characteristic clicks (symptom of arthritis).In the field of the phalanx of the index and the annular fingers, inflammation develops.
The joints can hurt in the morning with the drop.The inflammatory process develops in the thumbs, the clinical image is accompanied by swelling, a change in skin color.
A sign of various joint pathologies can be pain in the finger joints after sleep.During pregnancy, net hormonal changes in women's body can cause pain.
The numbness occurs in people of all ages.This symptom complicates a normal lifestyle.The appropriate appeal to a specialist will help avoid complications.The reasons for numbness can be used:
- Stress;
- osteochondrosis of the cervical column;
- pathology of the vascular system;
- Carpale valve syndrome - The pinch of the nerve of the wrist leads to an alteration of innervation and blood circulation, which causes numbness.
Diagnostic methods
With the pathologies of the finger joints, the following symptoms are observed:
- deformation processes in the field of inflammation;
- Bread palpation;
- intensive pain syndrome;
- redness of the skin;
- hyperthermia;
- difficulty of movement;
- inflammatory process and swelling near the affected area;
- the appearance of nodules around the joints;
- Pain attacks are like waves, intense at night and insignificant - during the day.
After the initial inspection, laboratory and equipment methods to examine the patient are carried out:
- Biochemical blood test;
- General blood tests and urine;
- radiographic examination;
- MRI;
- Blood is examined for the presence of a rheumatoid factor, anti -braptococcal antibodies, purins.
A neglected state of pathology can lead to a handicap, so the pain should not be ignored.The finger joints hurt other pathologies, therefore, when the symptoms appear, it is necessary not to delay the doctor.
Treatment
After the diagnosis, medical measures are prescribed.The classic treatment of all diseases, when joints on the fingers, are based on taking medication.Therapy aims to eliminate the main symptoms of the finger at the finger at the arm: inflammation and pain.Show LFK and therapeutic massage.
Drugs
The drug treatment includes: pain relievers, non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), with autoimmune pathologies - hormones, local drugs - gels, ointments, creams.
Appoint:
- NSAIDs;
- corteced with corticosteroids;
- Local drugs.
In emergency cases, when pain syndrome is very serious, drugs are used.
If necessary, the drugs that restore the cartilage fabric are prescribed.
Therapy and massage of the exercise
A set of exercises is selected by a specialist.LFC strengthens finger joints, improves blood circulation, accelerates the recovery process in affected areas.
Massage sessions are carried out during the period of remission (during the acute period, it is not recommended to do them).The massage procedure improves blood supply, reduces pain and swelling.
A global 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 respect food nutrition.In acute periods, when the finger joints hurt, it is necessary to avoid the use of pastries, sweet dishes, salt, salty and marinated, smoked foods, dairy products rich in calories.You should not consume strong tea, meat, spinach, sorrel.A bit down-milk products can only be included in the diet only (low in fat).
Popular treatment
In addition to drug treatment, traditional medicine methods are allowed.
At home, if the finger joints are painful (especially in the exacerbation phase), you can make compresses from a mixture of vodka, aloe and honey.The duration of the compress is 3 hours.
You can apply an oil balm.Add vitamin A to olive or sesame oil, mix.Rub the oil in painful areas.
Go the dyeing the lilac pain: pour a glass of flowers, pour 200 ml of vodka, insist in a dark place for two weeks.Before going to bed, rub in the inflammation area.
Brown's infusion reduces pain with the exacerbation of diseases.Apply twice a day for 200 ml.
Prevention
The main preventive measures to avoid the development of pathologies, accompanied by unpleasant sensations in the joints, are:
- sporty;
- Good nutrition;
- Regular massage sessions.
Adhering to a healthy lifestyle, you can avoid many problems.