The distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint connects the bones at the tips of the fingers. People with arthritis may experience pain, stiffness, and swelling in this joint. However, home remedies and ...

11 Each finger has two tendons. One is the flexor digitorum profundus tendon, which is assessed by having the patient flex the distal interphalangeal joint. The other tendon is the flexor ...

Based on this, there are five types of psoriatic arthritis: Distal interphalangeal predominant psoriatic arthritis. This type affects the joints near your fingers and toes. It’s the type most ...

Hand osteoarthritis is swelling and irritation -- called inflammation--that causes pain and stiffness in the joints of your hands. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. It happens ...

In the hand, the joints most frequently affected by OA are the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints and thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) joint. The metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints are less commonly ...

Dr. Miller: How do we do that? Dr. Hutchinson: For example, in the fingers the most common place to get arthritis is near the tips in the last joint, called the distal interphalangeal joint, right ...

The interphalangeal joint (IP) is present at the tip of the thumb, just before the fingernail starts, and is similar to the distal interphalangeal joint of the other four fingers. This joint ...

Within this classification scheme, isolated distal interphalangeal (… Historically, psoriatic arthritis was presumed to be simply a variation of rheumatoid arthritis in patients who also ...

Your thumb’s bendability is controlled by its distal interphalangeal joint, the bendy point at which the bones of your thumb are connected. People with hitchhiker’s thumb have distal joints ...

A 54-year-old white man had two “warts” on the second distal interphalangeal joint of his right hand. The lesion near his nail bed was associated with a longitudinal defect in the nail.