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 ...

Extensor tendon injuries are quite complex and only a qualified hand surgeon and hand therapist should be consulted regarding their rehabilitation. For more information on extensor tendon injuries ...

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 ...

Hand surgeons are seeing a lot more avocado-related hand injuries. According to research ... of people accidentally severing ...

Alayna Loiselle, an orthopedics researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is developing new therapeutics for tendon injuries. We are focused on acute traumatic injuries. These used to ...

Muscle strain may tear the myofibrillar attachments from the intramuscular tendon, with resultant bleeding and oedema. Occasionally , the damage may also involve a partial or complete tear of the ...

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 ...