Gardening, joyscrolling, gripping your precious morning coffee — these small pleasures shouldn’t come with joint pain. But when your hands or wrists ache, it’s hard to focus on anything else. “Hand joint pain is one of the most common reasons people come to see us,” says Erin Cravez, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and hand specialist at Hartford HealthCare’s Connecticut Orthopaedic Institute. “In most cases, it’s either inflammatory, like arthritis, or mechanical, like overuse or trauma. >>READ: How can you tell the difference?
