The upper toes play an important role in human life, helping him do delicate work at home or during the dressing process. But the inflammatory process in thin joints also often occurs, especially in old age, and then the movement becomes difficult, painful, and the phalanges of the fingers are so bent that it disfigures the hand.
If the finger joint is sore, the cause and treatment are closely related. Let's consider it in more detail.
Painful fingers - a cause of discomfort
Pain, swelling in the joints of the fingers can be caused by various reasons:
- All types of arthritis often affect the phalanges of the fingers. Then not only does the bone become inflamed, but the tissues adjacent to it. The pain syndrome increases not only after doing physical exercise, but also after a night’s rest. Mobility of the phalanges is limited, its shape changes, redness in the articular area can be seen. In rheumatoid arthritis, the phalanges of the fingers such as the middle and index fingers swell and become inflamed. First, the joint hurts, for example, in the right, then in the left hand. At the same time, discomfort in the right and left hands did not appear;
- Psoriatic arthritis is characterized by dysfunction of all joints, they stretch, turn red. If the process is caused by infection of the articular components with viruses of various kinds, then a sharp increase in body temperature is added to the signs of local importance, accompanied by subsequent body poisoning. In children, the symptoms of infectious arthritis are more pronounced than in adults;
- For stenosing ligamentitis, the main symptom, in addition to pain at night, is numbness. Almost all the joints of the upper fingers are swollen, the right and left hands suffer. There is no swelling only in the little finger area;
- When the destruction of cartilage tissue begins, osteoarthritis, then a painful sensation appears after doing physical work, subsides at night. In this case, the joints can first be damaged, then the pain gradually covers all the phalanges of the hand. Sometimes the disease captures the articular base of the thumb, which then begins to deform, capturing the metacarpal bone;
- Severe pain is a sign of developing osteomyelitis, which is indicated by the formation of purulent-necrotic processes;
- Traumatic pathology causes inflammation of the joint capsule, excessive accumulation of synovial fluid in it. The affected area becomes dark red, you can not touch it, because the finger joints are immediately pricked by acute pain;
- Sometimes the pathology manifests itself only at the fingertips. Ulnar nerve neuropathy is indicated by a painful sensation in the left hand, the fingertips become numb, turn white. This is due to the fact that blood circulation is disrupted at the fingertips, they do not get proper nutrition;
- Upper body hypothermia responds with unbearable joint pain, accompanied by cyanosis or severe redness in the affected area;
- With inflammation of the ligaments of the thumb, de Quervain's disease, any movement of the hand causes a painful attack;
- Frequent injuries to the upper limbs include dislocations, accompanied by sharp pain;
- People who spend a lot of time at a computer keyboard tend to pinch the wrist nerve, which is indicated by pain. Professional pathology also includes vibration disease, for which signs of numbness on the fingers, a painful sensation.
The reasons listed indicate that the joints of the upper toes are most heavily affected by inflammatory diseases of a viral or traumatic nature.
How to help your fingers if they hurt
There are various methods of how to treat hand joints, all effective in combination.
Medical procedures will reduce pain
Most importantly, the painful process is eliminated with various medical procedures.
Regular massage helps improve peripheral blood circulation when the joints of the hands receive adequate nutrients and oxygen. During a session that consists of stroking, rubbing, kneading, shaking, you can perform the procedure for one finger or all at once.
Microwave therapy, when exposed to ultra -high frequency electromagnetic fields, creates conditions for the expansion of blood vessels, normalization of nerve impulse pathways, and reduction of smooth muscle spasms. The effectiveness of the procedure is associated with its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic effect. Local barotherapy is performed using equipment that produces high or low pressure. Usually this procedure is used to treat bone pathology associated with neurological diseases when other methods do not help.
To improve metabolic processes, relieve pain, electrophoresis can be performed, in which the necessary medication is injected into the joints of the hands using current force.
Medication is the basis of therapy when your fingers are sore
However, one can not do without the use of pharmaceutical preparations in the treatment of joint diseases:
- Non -steroidal medications will help relieve swelling, reduce pain;
- If the disease is caused by improper function of the immune system, then strong drugs of the prednisolone group are needed;
- Ointments that have a local anesthetic effect are useful for relieving unpleasant symptoms with minor inflammation;
- Chondroprotective drugs restore joint function.
It is possible to eliminate some causes of articular pathology only with antibiotics, cytostatics, hormones, for rheumatoid arthritis, hypouricemic agents that eliminate excess uric acid salts for gout, psoriasis.
Traditional medicine recipes will save you from pain
The main method of relieving joint pain, developed by traditional healers, is associated with the use of compresses, rubbing the affected area.
- Sea or table salt heated in a pan, used as a compress for joint pain, will gradually soothe it. Applying it daily, alternating with rubbing spruce oil in a week will keep you healthy.
- Compresses for diseased bones from the infusion of burdock leaves, as well as a decoction of wormwood, are applied for fifteen to twenty minutes. Burdock leaves rubbed on the joints will relieve discomfort.
- Gruel from grated onions is used effectively to treat joint diseases with compresses. Cabbage leaves also have a good effect, strengthening the components of the musculoskeletal system.
- Effective treatment - rubbing the sore area with apple cider vinegar, diluted in half with water, will give a positive result in a month.
- The previously prepared solution of twenty grams of celandine, one liter of olive oil, injected for two weeks, rubbed with a massaging motion in the morning and evening.
- The same amount of honey, glycerin, alcohol, iodine is thoroughly mixed, rubbed with a mixture of this diseased area. Positive results will be felt within a week.
Implementing a systematic method of therapy will help keep your fingers functional and healthy.
Recommendations for the prevention of joint pain
- Proper dietary arrangements can save from pathology of the skeletal system. To do this, it is necessary to limit the use of sweets, flour, dairy products with high fat content, salty, salty and spicy foods. Eating seafood, vegetables, especially cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, as well as eating pomegranates, figs, ginger, add olives, flaxseed oil, you can improve the condition of bones, remove excess salt, toxins from the body.
- Joints need to be given rest, a variety of light work, more often do gymnastics for them. Using a computer, you have to knead, shaking the brush every half hour to improve blood circulation.
- When working with vibrators, it is necessary to protect the hands and feet with gloves that support them firmly.
Treating your hands, preventing hypothermia will prevent pain.