Spieth is making his first start since August at the FedEx St. Jude Championship after undergoing surgery on his left wrist to repair a ruptured tendon sheath. Spieth had been nursing the injury ...

Tendons surrounding the finger and toe joints control the movement of the digits. A sheath, called the synovial membrane, surrounds the tendons. If the synovial membrane becomes inflamed ...

Since no practical intra-operative tensiometer is routinely available, adequate tensioning of the graft is best approximated in the clinical setting by elimination of tendon bowstringing without ...

Each flexor tendon travels through a tunnel called a tendon sheath. Structures called pulleys keep the tendon sheath in place along the finger bones. Trigger finger develops when the pulleys ...

keele.ac.uk Tendon disorders are a major problem in sports and occupational medicine. Tendons have the highest tensile strength of all connective tissue because of a high proportion of collagen in the ...

The ECU tendon disease includes tenosynovitis of the tendon sheath, tendinopathy, tendon disruption and tendon instability. These conditions can occur in isolation or synchronously. Rupture of a ...

This week we are going to discuss the Achilles tendon, a rather large and occasionally problematic area of the body that can develop a variety of symptoms. The Achilles tendon is an extremely ...