How to relieve stiff finger joints after waking up?

In daily life, stiff finger joints after waking up in the morning is a common finger joint problem. Stiff finger joints can easily lead to some complications and arthritis. It is generally more common in middle-aged and elderly people. There are many ways to relieve stiff finger joints. You can first relieve it through massage, or you can use acupuncture for treatment.

How to relieve stiff finger joints after waking up?

Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine method for pain relief. Traditional Chinese medicine can help people to dredge meridians, activate blood circulation and reduce swelling, etc. It is an effective method for treating diseases clinically, often without too many side effects. Waking up with stiff finger joints in the morning is an early symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. It can be relieved through traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture treatment.

Soothe your emotions and apply hot compress to your temples. If the stiffness and pain in the finger joints do not ease for a long time and are accompanied by deformation and thickening of the finger joints, it may be "rheumatoid arthritis". If you experience pain in your finger joints when you wake up in the middle of the night and the pain disappears after you move, it may be due to excessive nerve excitability, which is usually closely related to factors such as emotional tension and anxiety. Faced with such a situation, you can maintain a comfortable attitude, always keep a calm mood, and apply hot compresses on your temples before going to bed.

Drug treatment. Stiff finger joints in the morning are often caused by cold, fatigue, and strain, which lead to symptoms of qi stagnation, blood stasis, and pain and swelling due to poor blood circulation. At this time, you need to take a small amount of appropriate Chinese medicine to help yourself promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and promote the smooth flow of qi and blood.

Take calcium supplements. Stiff finger joints when you wake up in the morning may be a symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. It may also be caused by calcium deficiency in the human body, resulting in degeneration of joint cartilage and fascia. Faced with such a situation, you can take some calcium supplements, get more sun exposure, and just keep warm. You need to go to the hospital for a check-up to observe the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and rheumatoid factor. If it is rheumatoid arthritis, it may show a positive result. If the test results are all negative, it can be preliminarily judged that the body is calcium deficient.

When facing stiff finger joints, it is important to learn some effective relief methods to help patients deal with the problem of stiff finger joints in a timely manner and restore the finger joints to a healthy state.

Causes of stiff finger joints

1. Compression of upper limb nerves: First, numbness and pain in the thumb, index and middle fingers, often with a history of waking up from numbness at night, which improves after waking up and moving around. In severe cases, there may be atrophy of the hand muscles, affecting the fine movements of the hand. This is because the median nerve is compressed in the wrist, the so-called "carpal tunnel syndrome"; the second is numbness and pain in the ring and little fingers, and there may also be a history of waking up from numbness at night. In severe cases, there is muscle atrophy and decreased flexion strength of the ring and little fingers, affecting fine movement. This is because the nerve becomes pinched at the elbow, a condition known as "cubital tunnel syndrome."

2. Cervical spondylosis: The most common disease causing numbness in hands is cervical spondylosis, which is one of the common diseases among middle-aged and elderly people. When people enter middle age, some organs tend to undergo degenerative changes. When the cervical intervertebral disc degenerates, it often leads to cervical disc herniation or hyperplasia or hypertrophy of the articular processes. Once these protruding cervical discs or hyperplastic articular processes compress the adjacent cervical nerve roots, cervical spondylosis occurs. In addition to numbness and abnormal sensation in the fingers, cervical spondylosis is also accompanied by other symptoms, such as: soreness in the bones and muscles of the neck and shoulders, radiating pain in the upper limbs or movement disorders.

It is not difficult to diagnose cervical spondylosis, all you need is an X-ray. There is also a simple method to check cervical spondylosis. One person supports the affected side of the head and holds the affected upper limb with one hand, abducting it 90°, and pushes and pulls in opposite directions with both hands at the same time. If there is radiating pain or numbness, it can be preliminarily diagnosed as cervical spondylosis.

3. Stroke: Another common disease that causes numbness in the hands is stroke.