Treatment for swollen finger joints will depend on the cause. For less extreme injuries, rest and icing the swollen location might be enough to lessen the inflammation, but in more severe injuries ...

Some conditions cause the finger or toe joint tissue to thicken, making movement difficult. This may affect how the joint bends and may feel like it is locking up. A person may also experience ...

On the March 24 episode of 'Today', host Jenna Bush Hager and her sister Barbara Bush joked about how this is the third time ...

We probably don’t think twice about how important our fingers are until they have trouble functioning, writes Napa fitness ...

So cracking fingers may make your condition worse ... Ligaments connect your joints (bones and cartilage) together. Cartilage is a flexible tissue inside your joints, ears, nose, and rib cage.

A ball and socket joint is made up of a round end of one bone that fits into a small cup-like area of another bone. Hinge joint. Articulating bones are femur and tibia (the patella is not classed ...

A broken finger, for example, is no minor injury. The bones in a normal hand line up precisely, enabling you to perform specialized functions such as grasping a pen or manipulating small objects in ...

A joint is a place where two or more bones meet and is also called an articulation. Synovial joints (freely movable joints) allow us the free movement to perform skills and techniques during ...