Hand Pain

Trauma or overuse, eg, fracture, dislocation, tendinitis
Trigger finger
Arthritis, eg, osteoarthritis (DIP & PIP joints), rheumatoid arthritis (MCPs, not DIPs), psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome), gout, septic arthritis
Finger: felon (infected pad), paronychia, subungual hematoma
Area of first CMC joint: osteoarthritis, DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis, scaphoid fracture (snuffbox pain)
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Pronator teres syndrome (median nerve entrapment at level of pronator teres)
Flexor tenosynovitis, eg, overuse, rheumatoid arthritis, gonococcal
Dupuytren’s contracture
Ulnar nerve entrapment at the wrist
Brachial plexus neuropathy
Cervical nerve root compression, eg, herniated disk
Superficial radial neuropathy (cheiralgia paresthetica or handcuff neuropathy)
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Thoracic outlet syndrome
Vascular, eg, Raynaud’s syndrome, thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger’s disease), erythromelalgia
Angina pectoris (left-sided pain)