Therapy (also called counseling) is often a helpful treatment for anxiety disorders. With therapy, a specially trained professional (therapist) helps you face and learn to manage your anxiety. Therapy can be short-term or long-term depending on your needs. In some cases, medication may also be prescribed with therapy.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain. It affects how your brain learns and works. Once it is exposed to an addictive substance, your brain begins to change. These brain changes override your self-control.

A panic attack is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes when there is no real danger. With it comes terror, physical symptoms, and a strong need to escape from wherever you are. If you have these attacks often, you have panic disorder.

Basal joint arthritis often affects the joint at the base of the thumb, the basal joint.

Learn how to treat ankle sprains.

When ankle ligaments are stretched to the point of pain and injury, it's called an ankle sprain. A sprain can tear the ligaments. These tears can be very small but still cause pain.

Learn how metatarsalgia, pain in the ball of your foot, is treated.

The only way to treat Dupuytren contracture is surgery if it appears that the disease is progressing.

Bunions don't go away. Wearing shoes that fit correctly will often relieve the pain. Bunions that remain painful may need surgery.

A ganglion is a cystic swelling that is found in overlying joint and tendon sheaths, especially of the wrist. The foot and other extremity areas are sometimes involved. Ganglia can be treated surgically and nonsurgically.