Stiffness and pain : And a spongy feeling in gripping can ber a sign of some very early very mild arthritis even with so called normal xrays. There are many causes of arthiis though from genetic predisposition to osteoarthritis to inflammatory or related disorders to infectious things such as lyme disease. Stiffness can also be just swelling and that has many causes too. Its hard to exactly what it is early sign of
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