The human hand is an intricate system comprised of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels. When injury occurs—or congenital deformities, tumors, infections, or other medical ...

Australian Paul Robinson, now 34, broke a vertebrae when he landed on his head in a dirt bike accident in 2015. It left him confined to a wheelchair and rarely able to leave his home. “I had no motor ...

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TURIN (Reuters) - A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern ...

Nerve transfer surgery has enabled 13 young adults with complete paralysis to regain movement and function in their elbows and hands, according to the largest case series of this technique in people ...

Tim Raglin regularly dove, headfirst, into the water at his family’s lake house. The 45-year old Canadian man had done so thousands of times without incident. In 2007, though Raglin hit his head on a ...

Shriners Children’s New England is expanding its specialized pediatric care with the addition of Dr. Vinay Rao and the launch ...

Transferring the C7 nerve from the nonparalyzed to the paralyzed side in patients with a stroke or other cerebral injury resulted in improved function and reduced spasticity in the affected arm, new ...

Do you spend your days using a computer, sorting mail, or assembling small parts? Do you experience numbness in your hands at night or during certain activities? You may be at risk for, or already ...

On June 19, 2013, plaintiff Maylanna Williams, 35, an administrative assistant, underwent a carpal tunnel release procedure on her left hand, of her nondominant arm. The procedure was performed by an ...

Claw hand deformity is a condition where your fingers are bent into a position that looks like a claw. It may affect all of your fingers or only some of them. The cause is usually related to damage to ...