The MCP joint is the large joint within the hand ... at birth tend to develop gout after menopause. A 2019 study in Arthritis & Rheumatology found that nearly 10 million Americans have gout.

While the exact cause of the cracking sound remains unclear, studies have not found a definitive link between knuckle cracking and osteoarthritis or joint damage. However, forceful cracking ...

Both these entities have overlapping clinical features, especially when PMR presents with peripheral arthritis in the small ... RA can be acute or insidious. Joint destruction is progressive ...

Documenting joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA ... quantitative assessment of bone erosion volumes in the wrists and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints of RA patients. A semiquantitative ...