NORFOLK, Va. ( WAVY) – A surgeon at Sentara Norfolk General hospital recently performed an unusual and very rare procedure. A patient lost a thumb – and decided to replace it with one of his toes.

Strong’s reconstructed hands are no longer calloused. The groin skin grafted to her palm is sensitive and can be easily cut ...

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Repeated use of fingers can cause several diseases in the hands and wrists, of which trigger fingers are typical. Trigger fingers are diseases that cause pain in the process of bending and stretching ...

A Chinese national who stabbed two strangers on the TTC near High Park Station two-and-a-half years ago has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

The frequent stretching to reach distant screen areas forces the thumb into positions near its maximum range ... the underlying joint degeneration. The tendons controlling thumb movement develop ...

What it is: Inflammation and swelling in a tendon near where it attaches to a bone ... which affects tendons at the base of the thumb, and trigger finger, in which finger tendons freeze in a curled ...

“You have three joints in your thumb — joint one, joint two, and joint three,” Scherzer said, referring to, in order, the joint near his wrist ... joint one and that tendon on top was ...

The adductor pollicis was incised near its attachment ... and an opponens-tendon transfer using the sublimis tendon of the ring finger. When the patient was first examined at the Veterans ...

the force of the blow causes a tear near the insertion of the extensor tendon at the last joint of the digit” — in essence, a severely jammed finger that prevents a person from straightening ...