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Most sports, particularly involving balls or rackets will involve some kind of contact with the hand and fingers and mostly we d rush that off as part...

Hand surgeon Ryan Zimmerman, MD answers your questions about fingertip injuries.

Capitalism is probably off the hook for the three million new cases of CTS diagnosed in the U.S. each year: There is scarce data that excessive keyboard work causes carpal tunnel syndrome.

the team, led by University of Utah biomedical engineering associate professor Gregory Clark, has developed a way for the "LUKE Arm" (so named after the robotic hand that Luke Skywalker got in "The Empire Strikes Back") to mimic the way a human hand feels objects by s...

Ulnar deviation, or ulnar drift, is a medical condition that causes the joints in the wrist and hand to shift so that the fingers bend toward the ulna bone on the outside of the forearm.

Nerve transfer surgery has enabled 13 young adults with complete paralysis to regain movement and function in their elbows and hands, according to the largest case series of this technique in people with tetraplegia (paralysis of both the upper and lower limbs).

According to a study with a 10-year follow-up, tendon repair yielded superior results compared with physiotherapy in the treatment of small- and medium-sized rotator cuff tears.

For some people, relief of pain and restoration of function will require something to be done about the damage to the rotator cuff tear. However, not all rotator cuff tears will need surgical treatment. Determining when a rotator cuff tear will require surgery takes multiple factors into account

As the shoulder pops out of joint, it often tears the labrum, especially in younger patients. The tear is to part of the labrum called the inferior glenohumeral ligament. When the inferior glenohumeral ligament is torn, this is called a Bankart tear.

A specific type of injury to the labrum, or labral tear, is called a SLAP tear. SLAP stands for Superior Labrum from Anterior to Posterior. The SLAP tear occurs at the point where the tendon of the biceps muscle inserts on the labrum.