Department of Hand Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr. Richard D. Lawson, Department of Hand Surgery and ...

What is the recovery time for an Achilles tendon rupture without surgery? Usually, casting or bracing for up to 8 to 10 weeks is necessary, with four to six months of physical therapy. By avoiding ...

Trigger finger (stenosing tenosynovitis) is one of the most common causes of hand ... tendon, which connects your forearm muscles to your finger bones and enables your fingers to flex (bend) and ...

Correspondence to: Hyun-Joo Lee, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyungpook National University Hospital, 130 Dongduk-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-721, Korea. Tel: +82-53-420-5628, Fax: +82-53-422-6605.

New Delhi: A retired schoolteacher who had lived with severe hand tremors for years has found relief after undergoing a non-surgical procedure at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Doctors at the hospital said ...

the structure of the hand (both palm and fingers) is moulded as a soft polymeric single part with compliant joints and embedded tendon driven underactuated mechanism for providing adaptive grasp. In ...

Abstract: This paper presents a lightweight (;250 g) and low-cost (;350 USD) biomimetic prosthetic hand with two actuators embedded in the palm. One of them is employed for flexion/extension of the ...

Tendons are made mostly of collagen that’s arranged in bundles. Some tendons in the hands and feet are covered with a sheath of tissue (the synovial membrane) that produces a fluid that helps the ...

Flessness worked as a mechanic and on ranches for most of his life, but after his stroke, he lost all feeling in his left hand. Flessness ... sent him to occupational therapy with Cori Radke ...