Optical spectral transmission, a novel noninvasive light-based technology, can effectively differentiate patients with inflammatory arthritis from healthy control individuals, a recent study showed.

such as trigger finger. This image allows a closer view of the joint damage and subsequent hand deformity in a young woman with rheumatoid arthritis. The damage involves both her proximal ...

However, knowledge about the in-vivo loading conditions at the PF joint remains limited, as no direct measurements are available. We hypothesised that the external knee flexion moment (EFM) is highly ...

The most common type—osteoarthritis, or wear-and-tear arthritis—occurs commonly in the joint at the base of the thumb, where the thumb meets the wrist. This joint, called the carpometacarpal (CMC) ...

There is no limitation of movement in the distal interphalangeal joints of these fingers or of any joints of the thumb, index and ... are seen to be incapable of flexion at these joints.

Arthritis is damage to the cartilage in joints. Shoulder arthritis occurs when the cartilage starts wearing down on the ball and/or socket sides of the shoulder joint. Symptoms of shoulder arthritis ...

Intracortical efferent zones in the primary motor cortex for thumb movements, namely thumb flexion, extension, adduction, and abduction, have been described in Macaca mulatta monkeys but not in humans ...

If you have ever found thumb.db files in a Network folder where several computer users are connected to each other and access the same folders, you know it’s hard to delete them as they are read ...

18 We have seen a mild flexion of the metacarpophalangeal joint in the hands of many patients with early PD, even before other parkinsonian features present. This flexion is typically on the side ...