Identifying arthritis in your fingers and thumbs - Harvard Health
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Arthritis can strike the thumb and fingers. Osteoarthritis usually affects joints in the middle or end of the fingers or the base of the thumb. Rheumatoid arthritis often affects the fingers' middle joints or joints connecting the fingers to the hand.
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