Hand joint pain, including thumb pain, is common but still confusing. Today we discuss what all things hand pain: including how to tell if you have osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis and what you can do for your joint pain.

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⏱Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:12 Osteoarthritis (OA) v Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
7:14 Thumb arthritis
8:47 The genetics of hand arthritis
11:36 How to treat hand arthritis
17:16 Arthritis is not the same as pain

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Top 10 Facts about RA pt1    • Top 10 Rheumatoid Arthritis facts you...  
Top 10 Facts about RA pt2    • Top 10 (continued!) Rheumatoid Arthri...  
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How we treat RA pt2    • Understand (continued!) how your Rheu...  

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