Thumb Surgery
I’m thinking of renaming this blog “complaints of the over forty”.
In addition to knee pain, hip pain, shoulder pain and back pain, there’s now “Blackberry Thumb“. This is the common term for a condition called CMC arthritis. As our opposable thumbs are what separates us from the apes, we use them quite often in both fine and gross motor/ weight bearing motions. As a result, pain in this jont can affect us profoundly.
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot that can be done about this condition. One alternative, that doesn’t make much sense is a tendon graft surgery . Click on the link to read more about it.
One alternative to thumb surgery is autologous mesenchymal stem cell transplant into the CMC joint. There are several videos that can attest to the effectiveness of this procedure in relieving pain from thumb arthritis.
You are so totally right (write!)