Flexor muscles and tendons bend your fingers, while extensors straighten them. In addition to having similar flexor and ...

De Quervain's tenosynovitis is caused by inflammation of tendons that attach to the base of the thumb and continue along the thumb side of the wrist. The two muscles affected are the extensor ...

Hold a light dumbbell or a water bottle in your hand, and rest your forearm on a table with your wrist over the edge. Execute ...

Tendons attach to our muscles to help them move our bones ... between two of the joints on a finger. Repeat this until each finger has three pieces of straw taped to it, and the thumb has two ...

Stage 5: Reduction in muscle mass or paralysis of the muscles ... complication of the operation is the development of a ‘trigger thumb’(where the tendon associated with the finger catches ...

Wrist curls are a basic exercise that strengthens the flexor muscles of the wrist and forearm. To do this exercise, sit down ...

Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where joints meet. Tendons attach muscles to the skeleton. Synovial joints (freely movable joints) allow us the free movement to perform skills and ...