Doctors at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, performed a complex, staged hand reconstruction for a 46-year-old engineer. Following ...

Your hand consists of your wrist, palm, and fingers. The wrist has many smaller bones and joints, allowing the hand to move in different directions. It also includes the distal ends of the forearm ...

Fine finger movements are controlled by the population activity of neurons in the hand area of primary motor cortex. Experiments using microstimulation and single-neuron electrophysiology suggest that ...

A prototype 3D-printed myoelectric prosthetic hand developed in Japan successfully passed a test by an upper-arm amputee, performing a series of intricate finger motions with more than 90% accuracy.

Polydactyly is the extraordinary condition of someone being born with more than five fingers or toes. In a case study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Freiburg, ...

Diabetes can lead to several types of hand mobility issues. Some are unique to diabetes and some are not. But they all result in uncomfortable or painful hand stiffness and immobility, and they can ...

Trigger finger is one of the most common hand conditions. Trigger finger occurs when your tendons become inflamed and swollen. This can lead to your tendons getting caught in your tendon sheath, ...

As Eric Jones fought off cancer a few years ago, his weakened immune system left him vulnerable to strep pneumonia and sepsis, which developed into the blood-clotting disorder known as Disseminated ...

Whether these particular images showing the syndrome are genuine. In April 2018, a set of images purportedly showing a hand with eight fingers and no thumbs started to go viral: Although these images ...