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Our hand is crucial for daily upper body functioning, and we use it for everything from being able to eat and clean to being able to open doors and have access to all the tool required to live life on a day-to-day basis. As such the hand can become prone to suffer from damage and offer use and due to the importance of micro movements when utilising the joint, we become more debilitated when the hand becomes injured.
Ligaments are soft tissues structures that connect bone to another bone and their role is to stabilise the joint structures. When they become damaged or injury, they often cause the joint to become unstable and weak, and this can occur…
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and is also known as degenerative joint disease and the cause is usually wear and tear. This causes pain due to the cartilage between the joints begins to break down and change…
A thumb sprain occurs when damage is sustained to the soft tissue structures in the thumb, specifically the ligament (soft tissues that connects bone to bone). This can be caused by direct injury to the ligament through sporting activity such…
Trigger finger occurs when the tendons of the fingers become irritated and inflamed usually as a result of being overused and each of the tendons and when irritated it can become scared and thickened. The formation of bumps (nodules) and…
