Tendonitis usually occurs when you repeatedly injure or overuse a tendon. Tendons are the tissue that attach your muscles to your bones. Tendonitis in your finger can occur from repetitive straining ...

IN CIVILIAN life, acute suppurative tenosynovitis and trauma to the joint phalanges are the most common causes of loss of flexor function in the hand. Loss of flexor function means loss of the "hook ...

Trigger finger is a painful condition that makes your fingers or thumb catch or lock when you bend them. It can affect any finger or more than one finger at a time. You can also have it in both hands.

Tendons link muscles and bones together. The hand is unique because many of the muscles that control the bones in your fingers and wrists are located in your forearm. The tendons and muscles in your ...

Researchers created tough hydrogel artificial tendons, attached them to lab-grown muscle to form a muscle-tendon unit, then ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I would like some information about a condition called trigger finger. – S.K. Dear S.K.: We’re able to bend fingers because tendons run from the forearm muscles through the palm to ...

A sprained finger is when you either stretch or tear one of the ligaments in your finger. A ligament is a band of soft tissue. Most connect the outside surface of one bone to another bone. A sprain is ...

Hitting middle age can be a shrinking experience. You're usually less active, so you don't use your muscles as much; or move the tendons that hold those muscles to your bones. The result is that they ...

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 ...