Abstract

Hand pain starts after age 40! A hand specialist teaches you how to self-care.

Do your hands feel stiff, creaky, difficult to move, or swollen when you wake up? What is causing your hand problems? What precautions should you take, and what kind of self-care should you do? This is a "user manual" for your hands, taught by a hand specialist, to help you use your hands comfortably for a long time.

It explains in detail how to make your hands more comfortable in everyday life, from how to use your hands carefully when using smartphones and computers, doing housework, and how to open plastic bottles, to various diseases.

- "Menopausal hand" caused by a decrease in female hormones
- "Osteoarthritis of the finger joints" such as Heberden's nodes, Bouchard's nodes, and thumb CMC joint osteoarthritis
- "Tenosynovitis" such as trigger finger and De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- "Carpal tunnel syndrome" and "cubital tunnel syndrome" causing numbness in the hands
- Tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, etc.

All are explained with color illustrations, from their mechanisms to self-care and treatment.

Author’s Information

A specialist in hand surgery. Director of Kashiwa Hand Clinic (Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture). Graduated from Asahikawa Medical University. After working at Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, as a research fellow at the Mayo Clinic, and serving as head of orthopedic surgery and deputy director at Kikkoman General Hospital, he opened his own clinic in 2020. He obtained a PhD in Medicine from the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tsukuba. He is a specialist and instructor of the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand. He is also a certified orthopedic surgeon. Selected as "Best Doctor in Japan (2022-2023, 2024-2025, 2026-2027)". He specializes in various hand disorders, particularly in middle-aged and elderly people, and is also involved in the development of hand creams and orthotic devices.