Helen How  Registered Osteopath, 14 Craighall Gardens, Edinburgh EH6 4RJ  0131 551 1044  please read reviews if wish.

Excellent protection to pain and discomfort of your over worked thumb

A brand new CMC thumb brace designed and developed by eminent hand therapists Judy Colditz and Nettie Koekebakker.

Pain of the thumb and osteoarthritis is a common thumb disorder. It is a type of ‘wear and tear’ of the articular cartilage, affecting in particular people between 40 and 60 years of age.The Push CMC is a slim and compact product. The brace can be used in the water. Hygiene is important around the hand. Therefore the synthetic material is antibacterial and the brace can be washed in a washing machine at 40°.

This simple clever thumb brace is outstanding,  The thumb joint over the years  is prone to disabling pain which prevents one opening normal screw top bottles, jars tins and all kinds of other essential normal housemaking and job activities.  What most people do not know is that if the ligaments of the thumb are not protected from many of our normal daily activities the fine muscles of our thumb waste away and atrophy leaving to further weakness and permanent dysfunction.

By where this small neat thumb brace, you can get on with your daily activity, keeping your muscles active and therefore not wasting away while the inflammation and ligaments settle down.  For those of you with mild OA of the thumb you can wear the thumb as a temporary protection when you want to do some more heavy activity such as gardening or house hold work.

I had had excellent positive feedback from those who have purchased this neat thumb brace and I have used it for my own thumb which is now  completely pain free.   Taking some types of pain killers actually mean that you damage your joints and ligaments even more or some NSAIDS actually delay or stop the healing of collagen tissue.

Here is the link where you can buy this thumb brace for yourselves, I have added the link to facebook as well  where I add excellent you tube videos and other good sources of better management of all kinds of aches and pains.  Please do go to my facebook link as Facebook is so clever and it looks much neater then my blog.

Here is the reviews of this clinic starting from 2006 –    Reviews are increasingly important in this economic climate .

Helen How

Registered Osteopath

14 Craighall Gardens

Edinburgh EH6 4RJ