Hand Osteoarthritis and its Disability: What Does the 2024 Evidence Base Imply or Exclude?
Ray Marks*
Osteoarthritis Research Center, Canada
*Corresponding Author: Ray Marks, Unit 2, Box 5B, Willowbrook-Charnwood Postal Depot, Markham, Ont L3T, 5H3, Canada.
Published: January 06, 2025
DOI: 10.55162/MCMS.08.265
Abstract
Background: Hand osteoarthritis, a disabling painful health condition, has been a topic of great interest to clinicians, patients, and researchers for many years with no definitive consensus on its origins or most efficacious form of treatment or prevention. While various determinants such as age and genetics or both have been proposed to have an influence on this condition, what does the current literature imply?
Aim: Following a comprehensive review conducted in 2023, this mini review sought to examine what researchers have reported over the past 2024 period concerning hand osteoarthritis and the possible role one or more muscle function deficits may play in the disease onset and progression, if any.
Methods: Available English language related literature housed in PUBMED were searched.
Results: Cumulative findings appear to support an important future role for efforts to examine biomechanical disease correlates among other measures to heighten evaluation accuracy.
Conclusion: Future well-designed studies of various hand osteoarthritis samples using clinically relevant biomechanical, neurological, and biochemical outcome instruments are likely to prove extremely valuable in explaining the disease variation, who is at risk or not, some aspects of hand osteoarthritis etiology and modes of averting both the onset and progression of its disabling and costly manifestations.
Keywords: Biomechanics; Hand Function; Hand Osteoarthritis; Intervention; Older Adults
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