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 ...

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 ...

MOTOR regeneration of the median nerve after transection and repair of the median nerve at the wrist occurs in only about 5 per cent of cases. The thumb is incapable of abduction and opposition with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite the notion that nerve surgery research has plateaued in the past several decades, some surgeons view ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Checkpoint Surgical, Inc., a leader in hand-held, intraoperative neurostimulation technology for nerve protection and repair, announced it has received Breakthrough Device ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of my observations of nerve injury is that it is rare to encounter the same nerve injury twice. In general, ...

This commentary is written by Dr. Gregory Kolovich, an orthopedic and peripheral nerve surgeon at Optim Orthopedics. “It felt like a bolt of lightning was shooting down my arm — an arm that was no ...