With the accelerated pace of people’s lives nowadays, people’s work has gradually evolved from physical to mental work, and many young people who work with computers for a long time will experience pain in the joints of their hands. Pain in the joints of the hands or fingers cannot be bent, and pain accompanies bending, when the first thing to consider may be chronic rheumatoid arthritis or degenerative hand arthritis, in serious cases it is best to see an orthopedic surgeon. The second is tendonitis, which is more common in people who work with their fingers for a long time. Tendon sheaths become inflamed and painful as a result of tendon friction. The most common type of tendonitis in women is stenosing tenosynovitis. There are many causes of pain in the hand joints, and for this reason, it is important to make targeted choices when treating the condition so that you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Clinical causes of hand joint pain: 1. Rheumatoid arthritis, is one of the causes of hand joint pain. Often the proximal phalanges of the fingers are involved, with morning stiffness, manifested as stiff fingers in the morning, difficulty in making a fist, often lasting more than an hour, which can be reduced after activity, generally characterized by multiple joint pain, often symmetrical and wandering. Laboratory tests and X-rays show bone damage and positive rheumatoid factor, which is more common in women. Recurrent joint symptoms can lead to deformation of the hand joints in the long run. 2, osteoarthritis, is also more common in the causes of hand and joint pain. Osteoarthritis is caused by tissue degeneration and cumulative strain, and is one of the most common joint lesions. Osteoarthritis to the distal and proximal interphalangeal joints of the hand, knee, elbow and shoulder joints and spinal joints are susceptible to involvement, while the wrist and ankle joints are less likely to develop. The disease is most often seen in obese and overweight middle-aged and elderly people, the most common sites are the knee, fingers, neck, lumbar spine, etc. Symptoms are mainly joint pain, stiffness (pain will be reduced after light activity), and in severe cases, joint swelling, muscle atrophy, etc. 3, gouty arthritis, in the cause of hand and joint pain, occupies a large part. Typical attacks start rapidly, mostly due to midnight foot pain awakening, most likely to involve the big toe joint, followed by the dorsal foot (tarsal) ankle, knee, fingers, wrist, elbow and other joints, 90% of a single joint, occasionally bilateral or multi-joint involvement, joints and their surrounding soft tissues appear obvious redness, swelling, heat and pain, local intolerance of sheet coverage or vibration around, most patients have no systemic symptoms, a few can be accompanied by headache, mild fever, white blood cells Most patients have no systemic symptoms, but a few may have headache, mild fever, elevated white blood cells, and increased blood sedimentation, and the attacks are often self-limiting, with natural remission within hours or weeks. Gout stone and chronic gouty arthritis, gout stone is the characteristic damage of gout, mostly in the auricle, also seen in the first thumb, finger joints, etc., small like sesame seeds, large like eggs, this nodule causes mild chronic inflammatory reaction, tissue destruction. 4, cold damp or strain injury, hand joint pain may also be caused by cold damp or strain injury (such as tenosynovitis, etc.) caused by general joint pain. People who work with their fingers for a long time more often suffer from tenosynovitis, which causes inflammation of the tendon sheath due to tendon friction and produces pain. This type of hand and joint pain can be cured with proper rest and conditioning. The causes of hand and joint pain can be seen in the majority of pains caused by strain and inflammation caused by degeneration, so daily and sports protection and rest and relaxation have a very positive effect on the prevention and reduction of pain symptoms! In addition to seeking medical attention, you can also try to correct bad hand habits to improve your symptoms!