Symptoms

Diagnosis

Common Cause

Therapy

severe pain in the thumb joints

Osteoarthritis of the thumb

ski thumb and overuse

physical therapy or splint

nodular thickening and severe contracture of the palm

Dupuytrensche contracture

unknown, often in males

Surgical treatment is usually advisable, before intensive physical therapy

inflamed nail bed

Paronychia

Infection between the nail and cuticle base

medical consultation

severe deformity of the hand

Rheumatism of the Hand

Congenital or acquired rheumatism

medical consultation

pain after over stretching the thumb joints

Ski thumb

Collateral ligament stretching or avulsion

tape, splint, cast or surgery

Tingling and paraesthesia in the thumb, forefinger and middle fingerespecially at night. Later, numbness and loss of strength

Carpaltunnelsyndrom

There is a pressure on the nerve, which leads to sensory loss in the thumb, index finger, middle finger

Physical therapy, infiltration, nerve conduction study, or operation

Incidence of nodule formation on the hand

Nodular connections to the wrist joint

Puncture or removal by surgery

Fingers can be bad stretch, stretch resistance, painful snapping of the finger

trigger finger

Based on a thickening of the tendon sheath or nodule formation in the flexor tendon, most commonly affects the middle or ring finger

Transection of the tendon sheath, split ring band - a minor surgical procedure