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What are you experiencing?

These are symptoms, not diagnoses. Each one can have more than one cause.

• Pain & achingAching, sharp pain, or pain that wakes you at night
• WeaknessA weak grip, or dropping things without meaning to
• SwellingA swollen hand, wrist or finger
• StiffnessA joint that will not move as far as it used to
• A recent injuryA fall, a cut, a crush or a blow to the hand

Conditions in this area

• De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis

  Pain and swelling at the base of the thumb and wrist, worse with gripping, twisting, or lifting with the thumb extended.

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• Thumb CMC Arthritis

  Pain at the base of the thumb with pinching, gripping, or twisting motions such as opening jars or turning keys; a bump…

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• UCL Injury (Skier’s Thumb)

  Pain and swelling at the base of the thumb, weakness or instability with pinching and gripping following an injury such as a…

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Treatments for this area

• Ligament Reconstruction