Category: Hand Conditions

What to Do If You Feel Tingling in Your Hands and Arms

As many as 50% of people diagnosed with diabetes experience something called diabetic neuropathy. It’s a condition where people experience tingling in their hands and arms. However, diabetes isn’t the only cause of this type of physical sensation.   Quite often patients with diabetic neuropathy may have also pressure on the nerve in a localized area, […]

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What to Do if You Injure Your Hand – From Cuts to Broken Bones

Some of the most common ailments treated in emergency care are hand injuries. Because of the frequency with which we use our hands, strains, sprains, fractures, cuts, burns, and dislocated joints. Over one million hand injuries are treated annually as a result of workplace injuries alone. While you can take preventative measures to avoid a hand injury, accidents […]

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How to Protect Your Hands While Gardening

Gardening should be fun, but if you don’t take the proper precautions, it can have dangerous—or in some cases, even deadly, consequences. An estimated 87,000 people are injured while gardening every year. While the most common injuries are caused by slips and falls, cuts are the culprit of some of the more serious injuries. Many of those […]

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Avocado Hand: Here’s What to Do After Injuring Your Hand Cutting an Avocado

Americans consume more than eight pounds of avocado each year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This represents a threefold increase since 2000 in the amount of the avocado plant’s massive berry consumed. This uptick in consumption has led to an uptick in injuries associated with its preparation. Due to the common […]

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