Can arthritis cause a burning pain and make the joint sore off and on? i slightly broke a finger by shutting it in a car door about three months ago. since then it has gone through spells of burning pain, sore pain, and no pain. i am no longer able to p

Because : Because this is now impacting your functioning, i recommed that you seek evaluation by a hand surgeon.

Three : Three months is too short to get arthritis and well within the normal recovery period. If you could move the finger well after the injury, chances are that everything's fine and you just need more time. To be sure you need to be evaluated by a hand surgeon. Most people i meet that have a problem like yours are healing well, but the pain is making them protective, which actually slows their recovery. Recovery can be quite counterintuitive. It helps to get the advice and reassurance of a hand surgeon.

Three : Three months after an injury to a finger joint there can still be pain and swelling at times. The key is that at themes you have no pain. Try to see when that is and what you can do to prolong that. Though post injury joints and arthritic pint may share some symptoms, it is unusual to had arthritis in a joint after an injury that heals well at three months after the injury. Even if you had an particular injury that was misaligned and it led to arthritis years form now, three mnths is too early, still what is it that we treat for arthritis in a small joint of the finger?...Pain swelling and stiffness , so if you have those symptoms you can treat it has if there is early arthritis motion, helped by heat, if stiffness is a problem especially for early morning stiffness and after inactivity ice for a swollen joint that has done too much anti inflammatories coban or a similar compressive wrap for swelling but not too much as it will add stiffness exercises for range motion a hand surgeon and a hand therapist can help.