“My thumb hurts and I can’t pinch anymore… Whether I’m 40 or 60, I need to take the pain away and be able to perform everyday gestures again,” explains Laurent Obert, professor and head of department at the University Hospital of Besançon, characterizing rhizarthrosis, or osteoarthritis of the thumb, the most common form of osteoarthritis of the upper limb which affects approximately 1.8 million patients in France (i.e. 20% of the approximately 10 million French people suffering from osteoarthritis).
A first assessment with a general practitioner
A pathology whose management is done “like…
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