From art to science: the functional damage due to thumb osteoarthritis finely described by Velazquez 300 years before its clinical description

Submitted: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 2 July 2017
Published: 21 September 2017
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Velazquez showed to know the entity of thumb osteoarthritis by finely describing it in one of his paintings. The concepts of anatomical damage, loss of strenght, and functional impairment are transmitted to the observer.

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Villafañe, J., Cantero-Tellez, R., Negrini, S., & Berjano, P. (2017). From art to science: the functional damage due to thumb osteoarthritis finely described by Velazquez 300 years before its clinical description. Reumatismo, 69(3), 137–139. https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2017.1009