What causes stiff finger joints when waking up in the morning?

Many people will find that their finger joints are stiff when they get up in the morning. You need to pay attention to this situation, because if you have osteoarthritis in the fingers, or if you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, cervical spondylosis and other diseases, this symptom will appear.

1. Rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a common autoimmune disease, characterized by joint pain as the main symptom. In the late stage, it can cause joint deformities. It is prone to occur in small joints such as hands, wrists, and feet, with repeated attacks and symmetrical distribution. Finger stiffness when getting up in the morning is generally a common symptom of rheumatoid arthritis patients. The main manifestations are joint stiffness and limited movement after getting up in the morning or waking up, accompanied by cold and numbness of the extremities. In severe cases, there may be a feeling of whole body stiffness. The symptoms will be relieved or eliminated after getting up and moving or warming up. The early symptoms of this disease are joint pain and tenderness in both hands. In some patients, morning stiffness occurs earlier than joint pain.

2. Finger osteoarthritis.

Finger osteoarthritis is a chronic disease that causes joint damage and pain. Among them, the most common osteoarthritis is finger osteoarthritis. Doctors say that hand osteoarthritis is the most common symptom, which has a certain impact on the patient's fingers, so pay attention to observe finger osteoarthritis and treat it in time. At the same time, bone nodules are generally painless, they are single at first and then gradually increase in number. Hand fatigue or exposure to cold water may induce pain or symptoms such as redness, swelling, pain or tenderness of the soft tissue around the nodule.

3. Cervical spondylosis.

Cervical spondylosis is also one of the factors that cause finger stiffness. Most patients with cervical spondylosis have mild symptoms at the beginning, which gradually worsen later, but some patients have severe symptoms. Neck and shoulder pain can radiate to the headrest and upper limbs. In addition, the patient will feel heaviness on one side of the shoulder and back, weakness in the upper limbs, numbness in the fingers, decreased sensation in the limb skin, inability to grasp objects, and sometimes unconsciously dropping objects. The radiculopathy type is one of the manifestations of cervical spondylosis symptoms. Degenerative changes in the cervical disc or the stimulation of bone hyperplasia compress the spinal nerve roots, causing sensory and motor dysfunction in the upper limbs, which is often manifested as movement disorders or numbness in one upper limb segment.