Shoulders are, in many ways, a marvel. One shoulder has four separate joints, packed with muscles, that allow us to move our arm in eight different major ways, giving us the most degrees of freedom of ...

Morning finger stiffness can be a subtle sign of early arthritis. Learn what to watch for and how early intervention can help ...

in the first carpometacarpal (CMC) joint, where the thumb meets the trapezium bone in the wrist. Thumb arthritis is common with aging and occurs when cartilage wears away from the ends of the bones ...

An osteophyte is a bony outgrowth or “bone spur” that develops slowly over time in and around joints. Bone spurs often do not cause symptoms. They usually only cause pain if they impinge on other ...

Though symptoms may not directly correlate with X-ray evidence of osteoarthritis, it is typical for a doctor to order X-rays of a painful joint. There are certain ... z Carol Eustice is a writer who ...

Jamuna Patil, Ravindra Sharma, and Madhavi Kakade (names changed) suffered from severe aches, pains and swollen joints for years before they were diagnosed with arthritis or joint inflammation and ...

Studies don’t point to knuckle cracking causing arthritis. But osteoarthritis (arthritis from joint tissue breakdown) often happens in joints at the ends (distal) of your fingers. People most ...

No matter your age, vocation, level of sportiness or activity, joint pain can slowly creep in and affect your knees, hips, spine, arms, neck or hands on a daily basis. The word ‘arthritis ...

The Trump administration and the Iraqi government scored a major win in the war on terror, conducting a joint operation that killed the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi Prime ...

At 4:55 P.M., Claremont Colleges students received notifications through Campus Safety’s alert system of “Police activity on CMC’s campus.” Squad cars were seen gathering outside the Kravis Center, ...