Carpometacarpal (CMC) joint arthroplasty is a surgery to treat severe arthritis in the thumb. Doctors recommend it when other treatments, like braces or cortisone shots, no longer help with pain.

The most common type—osteoarthritis, or wear-and-tear arthritis—occurs commonly in the joint at the base of the thumb, where the thumb meets the wrist. This joint, called the carpometacarpal (CMC) ...

Often the cyst can disappear on its own.” Basal joint arthritis, also known as carpometacarpal arthritis, affects the joint at the base of where the thumb meets the wrist. This condition involves the ...

including personnel exchanges and joint exercises, high-level Indonesian military officials told Liu Zhenli, a member of the China's Central Military Commission (CMC) and Chief of the CMC Joint ...

New Hampshire's attorney general is signing off on the sale of Manchester's Catholic Medical Center to an out-of-state for-profit company.The proposed $110 million deal has been in the works since ...

Towns braved an apparent thumb injury on Monday night against the Detroit Pistons when the Knicks engaged in the latter half of a back-to-back set. He appeared to endure the ailment during first ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory ... People with Sweet syndrome may also have a fever, joint pain, and malaise. There are many variants of pyoderma gangrenosum, a painful ...

Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself will suffer without American support. Russia’s advantage in manpower—bolstered by the North Korean troops it is using as cannon fodder—will only expand ...

A reaction to a bacterial infection (reactive arthritis). You may get joint pain, stiffness, and swelling in your lower back, hips, knees, ankles, feet, and fingers about 10 days after you're ...

Karl-Anthony Towns has a bone chip in his sprained right thumb, Stefan Bondy of The New York Post reports. The injury came on Monday, when Towns' New York Knicks lost to the Detroit Pistons.