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Suggest Treatment For Swelling And Pain On Knuckles And Fingers

Posted on Tue, 28 Jul 2015

Question: I recently tried to lift a heavy bag and it hurted my right hand thumb, there was swelling at knuckle and pain but slowly it cured but I think as the right thumb was in pain initially I started putting more pressure on left hand thumb and that caused pain and swelling on left hand thumb knuckle. Can anyone help?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Naveen Kumar Sharma (4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
It can be tenosynovitis

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have studied your case and I think that you are having tenosynovitis. In this condition there is inflammation of the tendon sheath of thumb. As you are saying that you have put more load on left thumb so this pain has started. I would recommend you following.
1.Hot water fomentation.
2.Tablet brufen 400mg twice daily.
3.Avoid doing overuse of left thumb specially typing and lifting heavy weight.
I hope this answer will be useful for you. Let me know if there is any other followup questions.
thanks

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar