Maybe one day you wake up with an ache in your fingers or at the base of your thumb. Or you feel a stab of pain when you pick up a dinner plate, cut your fingernails or turn a doorknob. You wonder if maybe you overdid it weeding your garden, or you have an overuse injury from computer work. A lot of different things can cause hand pain, and one of them is osteoarthritis.

Learn what causes osteoarthritis and how to treat it.