Some of the common traumatic causes for loss of flexor function of the hand are enumerated. Infection following severance of a flexor tendon within a sheath causes proliferation and adherence of ...

Repeated hand and wrist movements. They can cause the membranes around the tendons to swell (tenosynovitis). Broken wrist bones, dislocated bones, new bone growth from healing bones, or bone spurs.

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year ... but before carrying out any surgery, he wanted me to have a few months of physiotherapy first to see if that ...

Extensor Tendon Laceration ... Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa and Dr. Litts is staff hand surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical ...

Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Hand pain can be caused by an injury or medical condition. Your hands are made ...

However, the patient complained of pain with inability to fully flex the long finger of the right hand ... a rupture of the FDS tendon of the long finger (Fig 1). At surgery, the digit was ...

Hawaiʻi State Senate President Ronald D. Kouchi, who represents Kauaʻi and Niʻihau, will undergo two outpatient medical procedures — cataract removal and a tendon sheath adjustment in his hand — this ...