Tendons link muscles and bones together. The hand is unique because many of the muscles that control the bones in your fingers and wrists are located in your forearm. The tendons and muscles in your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A coupler device designed to mitigate the risk of repair rupture after zone 2 flexor tendon repairs was ...

Tendon repair is surgery done to treat a torn or otherwise damaged tendon. Tendons are the soft, band-like tissues that connect muscles to bone. When the muscles contract, the tendons pull the bones ...

IN CIVILIAN life, acute suppurative tenosynovitis and trauma to the joint phalanges are the most common causes of loss of flexor function in the hand. Loss of flexor function means loss of the "hook ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alafair Biosciences, the leader in non-collagenous soft tissue protection technology, today announced it has enrolled the first patient in a clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — According to presented results, flexor tendon repair with a wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet ...

Most patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand also showed inflammation and/or damage to hand tendons, a single-center study indicated. Among 86 patients with hand OA, 70% showed involvement of at ...

After receiving an FDA clearance for its mechanical tendon repair implant late last month, CoNextions Medical reported it has successfully treated its first person with the system, using it to help ...

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 ...

Tendons in high-stress and strain areas, like the Achilles tendon, actually repair themselves less frequently than low-stress tendons. This study sheds some light on the increased susceptibility of ...