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Forty years ago, I awoke to discover that overnight, someone had replaced my fingers with sausages! I had pain and swelling in my hands. When I tried to use them, it felt as if I had elastics tightly wound around my fingers,

Researchers stimulated the nerves of an amputated arm with signals very similar to the natural ones, succeeding in "imitating the colors" of the evoked sensations of the various types of receptors and related nerve fibers present in the fingertips of the hand. This has brought greate...

The radial nerve is in the arm, and it helps control the movement of the triceps, the extension of the wrist and fingers, and the sensation in part of the hand.

If you have ever broken an arm and had to wear a cast or splint for a few weeks, you will be familiar with the alarming loss of muscle and uneasy feeling of weakness experienced after removing your cast. Most people do not do much exercise while a broken arm is healing and can struggle with this los...

The collarbone (clavicle) is a long slender bone that connects your arms to your body. It runs horizontally between the top of your breastbone (sternum) and shoulder blades (scapula).

Patients who received interscalene brachial plexus block plus soft tissue infiltration with Exparel when undergoing primary shoulder arthroplasty used significantly more narcotics postoperatively and had no significant reduction in pain scores in the early postoperative period compared with patients...

Sore shoulder remedies: This common joint problem can affect anyone. Shoulder pain may involve the cartilage, ligaments, muscles, nerves, or tendons. It can also include the shoulder blade, neck, arm, and hand.

A study recently published in the BMJ explores the efficacy of shoulder surgery as a treatment for shoulder impingement syndrome.

Because of its structure, your shoulder joint allows an amazing variety of motions. You can swing your arms around, lift them to the side/middle/front/back of your body, swing a tennis racket or golf club, and even throw a ball or a punch. Metaphorically, you can give someone a cold shoulder, should...

What makes up your shoulder joint? Your shoulder joint is a complex system made up of five joints and three bones: