HARD TINY BALLS UNDER SKIN PITS FREE
If the finger reaches a stage where it can't be straightened, surgery can free it.ĭEAR DR. Hold the stretched position for 15 seconds. This motion stretches the finger tendons. Keep your fingers flat on the table while you lift your palm upward. Stretching the tendon might prevent matters from getting worse. The finger bends and, in time, cannot be straightened. Scar tissue sprouts from the bump, attaches to the tendon and drags it down toward the palm. The tendon in Dupuytren's begins to thicken and a small bump forms on it and draws the skin downward, producing a tiny skin depression. It's the tendon involved in bending the finger down toward the palm. What you call a "riser" is a finger tendon that runs across the palm to the finger. It could be Dupuytren's (dew-pwee-TRAHNS) contracture. DONOHUE: There's a small pit in the skin over the riser to the ring finger of my left hand.
Your kind might remain limited to the hands and fingers.ĭEAR DR. The bumps are bony growths.įor most, osteoarthritis is a slowly progressive illness. They're called Heberden's nodes and are indicators of osteoarthritis. Small bumps appear on the knuckles closest to the fingertips. One form of osteoarthritis is more common in women, and it appears you have that kind. Osteoarthritis most often affects the hands, fingers, knees, hips and the spine in the lower back and neck. What happens is that the cartilage that covers the ends of two bones splits, fissures and crumbles. It's infrequent before age 40, and it's most often diagnosed in the late to mid 50s. Aging, genes, previous injury and hormones are some of the known factors. We know many factors that are involved, and there are many factors we don't know. It used to be called "wear and tear" arthritis, but it doesn't occur simply from wear and tear. I go along with the arthritis diagnosis - osteoarthritis, the most common kind of arthritis. I'm having trouble accepting this as arthritis. Aren't I slightly young for arthritis? I saw the doctor because of tiny bumps that popped out on the top knuckles of some of my fingers and because my fingers had become stiff. DONOHUE: I am 56 and have just been told I have arthritis.
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