Many times you may come across pain in your knuckle joint and stiffness in your finger. It is important to know the anatomy of the finger and the knuckle joint. Our fingers and the knuckles are made up of bones, ligaments and tendons. The tendons help our fingers to move and bend freely, whereas the ligaments keep the finger in a fixed position. When the bones, ligaments of the knuckle become weak or get dislocated they cause pain in the knuckle joint and stiffness in the finger.
This condition weakens your grip on an article, eventually it falls from your hand.
Causes Of Knuckle Pain And Stiffness
Knuckle pain and stiffness of fingers can result from acute cause such as a trauma or a minor fracture of the finger bone. Both the condition can lead to temporary pain and stiffness. The other condition is chronic and difficult to treat; it is osteoarthritis of finger and rheumatoid arthritis of the knuckle joint. Both these conditions cause degeneration of joints which is permanent.
Cracking your knuckle can also damage the bony cartilages of your fingers; it can cause osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Both these condition can give rise to pain, swelling and stiffness of the knuckle and finger.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder while osteoarthritis is caused as a result of repeated stress to the knuckle joint and finger.
Swelling, pain, morning stiffness, burning pain, numbness is some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
Gout and psoriatic arthritis are other causes for knuckle pain and stiffness of fingers.
Home Remedies For Knuckle Pain And Stiff Fingers
There is effective way to treat knuckle pain and stiffness while you determine the cause with your doctor.
- Soak your hands in warm salt water for 15 minutes. This will relieve you from the aches and pains and stiffness of your knuckles and fingers. Salt is an ancient home remedy for absorbing the pain from the body.
- Do not constantly crack your finger joints as there is a risk of damaging the bony cartilage.
- Apply hot and cold compresses on the finger joints.
- Apply aloe vera on the finger, it will help to soothe the knuckle pain and finger stiffness.
- When you have acute pain and stiffness of finger and knuckle joint, avoid eating eggs, red meat, processed foods, as they are known to worsen the pain especially in case of rheumatoid arthritis and gout.
- Massage of the hands is an effective in relieving the knuckle pain and stiffness of finger.
- Physiotherapy, magneto therapy can relieve a lot the sufferings in those suffering from knuckle pain and finger stiffness.
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