Warm your hands first, soak in warm water or rub them together for 1–2 minutes as cold hands are stiffer. Do each exercise ...

You may not think about how much you use your hands until symptoms of arthritis start to affect them, making the activities you once enjoyed challenging or even impossible. Hand arthritis poses ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How do I know if joint pain in my fingers is arthritis or something else? Will cortisone injections help joint pain and swelling in my fingers? If not, what are my options? It sounds ...

Arthritis in your fingers often starts with subtle changes. At first, you might wake up with sore or stiff fingers, notice discomfort after using your fingers a lot, or experience changes in grip ...

KUSA - Did you know you can trick yourself into thinking you are in severe pain? Did you also know that when you cross your fingers, that pain goes away almost instantly? It is called the "Thermal ...

How you feel pain is affected by where sources of pain are in relation to each other, and so crossing your fingers can change what you feel on a single finger, finds new UCL research. The research, ...

Crossing two fingers, middle over index or ring fingers, reduced pain while uncrossing them restored pain. The spatial position of the fingers, not the part-to-body position (what the researchers call ...

A man in his 40s presents to urgent care with 3 days of worsening pain in his right elbow, numbness in his right pinky and ring fingers, and numbness in the right hand. The symptoms began after he ...

June 2, 2011 (London, United Kingdom) Longer use of gaming devices, such as Xbox and Game Boy, and frequent texting on cell phones can cause wrist and finger pain in children, and it is more common in ...

Crossing your fingers might not help you win the lotto, but this simple action does have a seemingly magic power. A new study found that crisscrossing a finger over or under the others affected how ...

For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children experience high ...