(HealthDay News) – Treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with severe hand deformities with a silicone metacarpophalangeal joint arthroplasty (SMPA) procedure produces significant, long-term ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After passage of the ACA, hand surgery wait times grew for non-urban patients and decreased for urban patients.

In an unexpected finding, patients with psoriasis showed similar hand impairment to patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and rheumatoid ...

Researchers compared the effect of psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis on objective and subjective parameters of hand function. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a ...

You may be able to spare yourself some joint pain — and save some money — by using these items in unconventional ways as assistive devices. When you have pain, stiffness, or swelling in your hands ...

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Problems in the joints of the hands and feet are common symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and can be some of the first symptoms of the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory autoimmune ...

In a recent study, led by corresponding author, Anna-Maria Liphardt, PhD, of the Rheumatology and Immunology Department at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the ...

Among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the hand with more clinically swollen joints is likely to be the best option for monitoring ultrasound activity, and thus best choice for unilateral scoring, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus are autoimmune diseases. They result from your immune system mistakenly attacking your own body. With RA, your immune system mainly goes after your joints. That's ...

Background Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) commonly affects the hands and wrists with inflammation, deformity, pain, weakness and restricted mobility leading to reduced function. The effectiveness of ...