Pain is the first and most common symptom of thumb arthritis. Pain can occur at the base of your thumb when you grip, grasp or pinch an object, or use your thumb to apply force. Other signs and symptoms might include swelling, stiffness and tenderness at the base of your thumb.

Painalog’s 3D analytics helps identify the 3 muscles as trigger points that could cause this pain and shows the video on how to locate them. It also shows us how to do self-massage and how to stretch them.

Three common muscles that cause thumb pain

If you are experiencing this kind of body pain you can see the solutions below:

• Flexor Pollicis Longus
• Subclavius
• Scalenes