Have you noticed one or more of your fingers—often the ring or pinky—slowly curling inward, making it harder to lay your hand ...

Dupuytren’s contracture is a progressive condition that affects the connective tissue under the skin of the palm and fingers.

It causes a “claw-like” posture of your hand, wrist, and fingers. Volkmann contracture usually results from traumatic injuries that cause acute compartment syndrome of your arm. Acute ...

You’ll typically receive a local anesthetic to numb your hand. While the cord isn't removed in a fasciotomy, breaking it up helps decrease the contracture and improve finger movement.

Dupuytren’s contracture occurs in patients who have used their hands in their vocation significantly, as well as in those who have not. The condition occurs in a variety of patients, most ...

Elway has his hands back, so to speak, as he trumpets treatment for Dupuytren’s contracture — a little ... with sizzling throws from his rocket arm, Elway laughed. "I think about that every ...

Volkmann's ischemic contracture. This rare condition can ... Use the other hand to gently pull that hand toward your arm. Hold for a few seconds, then switch to the other side.

Four months after birth, a partial paralysis of the left arm was noted ... and middle fingers resulted (Fig. 11 B). A hand with an adduction contracture of the thumb is greatly disabled.

“I also have Dupuytren’s contracture which affects my hands, meaning I can’t make them flat. So if I do fall over, although I’m planning not to, it means I may have trouble getting up.” ...

The condition is marked by “fixed flexion contractures ... median nerve found in the arm gets pinched. It leads to numbness, tingling, pain, or weakness in the hand. Some of these symptoms ...

Endo has brought all hands on deck for its newest campaign to raise awareness about Dupuytren’s contracture and its available treatments. Dupuytren’s is a progressive condition in which the ...