How would you treat a patient with osteoarthritis of just one joint of the hand?

People do this in various ways - some people treat the joint with a large margin, others may treat the whole hand.

I originally started by treating the affected joint, but pretty soon I after I switched and started treating the whole hand - pain is subjective and though it may appear localized, there...

I think it depends on the ability to localize the pain and confirm joint changes on an X-ray image.

For example, if the patient reports pain in a single discrete joint with OA degeneration seen on X-ray with no other affected joints, then I would treat the affected joint with a clinical margin to cov...