That unusual bend in your thumb isn't a cool party trick. Discover what hitchhiker's thumb might reveal about your health and ...

De Quervain's tenosynovitis is caused by inflammation of tendons that attach to the base of the thumb and continue along the thumb side of the wrist. The two muscles affected are the extensor ...

Tendons are strong bands of tissue that cross over the wrist. They connect the muscles in the forearms to the hand and finger bones. Flexor tendons on the palm side of your hand allow your fingers ...

Tendons link muscles and bones and control how our wrist and fingers move. Tendons can become injured after trauma or sharp injuries. Our surgeons have expertise with hand trauma and specialize in ...

The patient actively and fully extends all the digits while the wrist is held in neutral and faces the examiner. The examiner places one hand to palpate the ECU tendon and with the other on the radial ...

Background: The sport of rock climbing has its own spectrum of injuries, almost half of which involve the wrist and hand. Objective: To examine the incidence of acute wrist and hand injuries in 545 ...

It is a partial thickness flexor carpi radialis tendon autograft which ... of the trapezium bone of the wrist. The trapezium is the articulation to the thumb and therefore this joint surface ...