This fall, brace yourself—not just for New England foliage, but for a cartilage coup. It’s the 18th Cartilage and Joint ...

The Astros received what they considered “encouraging news” on slugger Yordan Alvarez following his examination on Wednesday ...

A new study by researchers from the University of Birmingham, UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Birmingham Children's ...

Methods: Open fusion of the DIP joint with a headless cannulated compression screw, of 2.2 mm in diameter, was undertaken in fifteen digits. Patients received standard departmental follow up to ...

Background A 46-year-old, nonsmoking, nulliparous woman with a 23-year history of rheumatoid arthritis presented with severely destructed right shoulder, right elbow, and right wrist joints, which ...

The modified Steinbrocker method scores the wrists, metacarpophalangeal (MCP), proximal and distal interphalangeal, metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints as well as the interphalangeal joints of the ...

In this paper, a wearable sensing glove for measuring the motion of the fingers is proposed. The system consists of linear potentiometers, flexible wires, and linear springs, which makes it compact ...

Dr. Roach: I’m a 64-year-old man in good medical health. Recently, a bump the size of a pea appeared on the large knuckle of my index finger. My general physician ...

They are associated with osteoarthritis of the hand. Over half of 64-year-old adults have osteoarthritis of the hands, so these are common. I suspect your physician was quite correct.

Perhaps we could examine challenges in everyday balance through the lens that our bodies become imbalanced due to a combination of factors caused by aging, suboptimal health choices, or previous ...

— R.R. ANSWER: Heberden’s and Bouchard’s nodes are bony enlargements on the hand joints. (Heberden’s nodes appear on the joint closest to the fingertip, while Bouchard’s nodes occur on the middle ...

Moderate to severe hand osteoarthritis is estimated to occur in 5–8% Caucasian adults above the age of 60 years. 1 2 Similar data have been reported in the USA. 3 In this population, marked ...