What your HANDS say about your HEALTH: Doctor Explains

Get ready to do some tests on your hands right now, and learn something new about your health! As a rheumatologist, I'm constantly examining people's hands and looking for clues about their health - it's incredible to discover things that are easily overlooked!

0:00 Intro
0:32 'Spider-fingers'
2:14 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
3:35 Red Palm
4:19 Orange Palm
4:42 Finger Length
5:44 Fingerprint
6:16 Diabetes
6:57 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
8:12 Raynaud Phenomenon
9:18 Hand Joints

This video is made for educational purposes only and should not be viewed as medical advice. Speak to your doctor if you have any concerns about your health.

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📚 References and Image Attributions:
Marfan syndrome
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Palmar Erythema (red palm)
Lycopenemia (orange palm)
Finger Length
Prayer Sign
Scleroderma

[kathyn]

As someone with multiple types of arthritis, who has had not so positive interactions with rheumatologists, you must be such a ray of sunshine for your patients. Never lose your passion and kindness, it is sorely lacking in medicine and in rheumatology in particular.

[howetuck]

As card carrying hypochondriac, I am somewhat disappointed that I have none of those issues you mentioned 😂

[kim]

I am a nurse and I LOVE your videos! They are educational, engaging, informative, and creative. You have a gift!

[dm]

My neurologist wrote a referral letter to an ENT doctor. The ENT doctor casually mentions he notes I have Ehler Danlos. My college roommate and best friend had Ehler Danlos, so I know what it is. I'm like, "No, I don’t.. why do you say that?"

He shows me the letter from the neurologist. Turns out he was talking about my excessive daytime somnolence (EDS). Having educated, trained, edited and transcribed myself for 23 years, I recognized the error that both the neurologist and his transcriptionist made. If the dictator doesn't expand the word he is expressing as an acronym, and there is no absolute reference to the actual word(s) in the report, it is up to the transcriptionist to clarify and spell the words out completely with the acronym in parentheses following it. Then the acronym can be used throughout the rest of the report.

This, among many errors between dictator and transcriptionist, can cause medical errors.

Just a boring comment, but I have seen way too many errors on my own medical records, and edited many that were wrong. It's a complicated relationship that creates an accurate medical report.

[froesfamily]

For years I suffered with pain and disability and all the doctors just said, it’s not RA. I finally got into a specialist and he diagnosed me in minutes. Psoriatic arthritis. I’ve been treated for the past couple years, use nothing for pain as I don’t have any more serious plain and I got my like back!

[mimibvo]

I have EDS! It’s wonderful that as a Dr. You have knowledge of it. It’s a 50-50 chance a Dr. In the USA will know about EDS.

[sheagoff]

Thank you for spreading a little awareness of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. So many people don’t know about it and it’s really frustrating as a person who has the hyper mobility type.

[cherisebeekman]

I love your passion for what you do! It doesn’t matter what a person’s profession, if they are passionate and fascinated by it, the excitement is contagious and it’s really a beautiful thing to see.

[Dicyroller]

I have RA and I feel like I have learned more about it form you than form almost 20 years of treatment. Thank you.

[Lemonsmeringue]

You are the type of Dr. That everyone needs. You obviously love what you do and educating others. Thank you. I can share these gems 💎 with my family. :)

[Maggie.can.hug.every.cat.]

I love seeing people so passionate about their jobs. You are clearly very passionate about all medicine but the way you lit up when talking about joint inflammation was just so beautiful. I honestly could watch or listen to anyone talk for hours about anything when they have that passion. I just love to see it.

[lololololol]

My college boyfriend had Marfan syndrome. We were hanging out on my bed one day and he suddenly had a really sharp pain in his chest that wouldn't go away. We went to the ER and it turned out his lung had collapsed and the doctor at the ER diagnosed him with Marfan's. Didn't even know it existed until then!

[lukewalker]

About 40 years ago, in my late twenties I lost one of my best friends to Marfan's syndrome. His aorta blew out. I went to visit him shortly thereafter...he didn't die initially but suffered horribly and then died a couple of months later after being badly debilitated.
He had a master's degree, newly married and had his whole life in front of him but was born in the wrong time prior to genetic screening. We are still living in the stone age of medicine 40 years later with countless medical misdiagnoses and inability to cure maladies like tinnitus as just an example.
I remember his body shape which was kind of like gumby. His hands were like rubber bands...and fingers were hyper flexible which is the polar opposite of my rigid digits which hardly bend at all.
I remember at this funeral, the look on his parent's face as they looked around the room and thought, why wasn't it one of us who came to celebrate his short life and not their special son who was such a good person. It could have been other than for fate.

[KarrieHiggins]

I have EDS that has caused an aortic aneurysm. Thank you for mentioning it! Doctors so often know nothing about it at all or they think it is *only* "loose joints" (oof, I wish).

[purpleheart]

I’ve been recently diagnosed with EDS after two years of symptoms (joint issues, migraines, POTS, gi dysmotility, and a condition called SMAS) and they did lots of tests on my hands! So facinating!

[susanbrennan]

I have Raynaud syndrome. I lived in the northeast and it used to happen all the time. I’ve found cashmere lined leather gloves were my best defense. I’ve moved south 2 years ago but sometimes it still happens when it’s cold and I am taking a delivery (I’m an operations supervisor)and it takes a while to come back to normal especially when I can’t get to warm water. I sometimes shock people with my corpse fingers. And it does hurt.

[nicholascrow]

You're passion and excitement for what you do is infectious!
Would love to see a collab with you and Dr Mike!

[gamergirlmars]

I have Marfan Syndrome! My hands are HUGE for a girl lol. I used to photoshop them as a kid when I took mirror selfies bc I was self concious. I NEVERRR hear bigger channels talk on my condition! Thank you!! I almost died from it since it is so rare.

[dixiewade]

You are an excellent educator. Thank you.

[leticiazaragozafitnessinst]

Wow! You are amazing and you're giving me hope for the future of having quality doctors who don't seem to be connecting any dots and looking deeper . Big hugs! Thank you!!!