The Impact of Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis on General Health

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy adults clinically diagnosed with thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis. The diagnosis must have been confirmed radiographically prior to consideration for study enrollment. * Adults accompanying patients to participating offices will be recruited to be control subjects. They must not be receiving medical or surgical treatment for a hand or wrist complaint. * Additionally control subjects must not have been diagnosed with thumb osteoarthritis. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects must be over 18 years of age and English speaking. * Subjects are not to include incarcerated adults or those unable to provide consent for study participation. * Patients diagnosed with currently symptomatic hand or wrist pathology outside of the thumb carpometacarpal joint will be excluded. * Patient with prior surgery on the affected thumb will be excluded. * Pregnant females are excluded from study participation with pregnancy determined by patient self-reporting (standard of care before office radiographs).