Carpometacarpal (CMC) joint arthroplasty is a surgery used to treat thumb arthritis when other treatments fail. The procedure involves removing the trapezium, a small wrist bone that supports the ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disease that targets synovial joints and can lead to joint destruction. While most total knee and total hip arthroplasty procedures are ...

including personnel exchanges and joint exercises, high-level Indonesian military officials told Liu Zhenli, a member of the China's Central Military Commission (CMC) and Chief of the CMC Joint ...

Towns braved an apparent thumb injury on Monday night against the Detroit Pistons when the Knicks engaged in the latter half of a back-to-back set. He appeared to endure the ailment during first ...

A new study from a Mass General/Harvard Medical School research team calculated the effects of body mass (measured using the BMI scale) on joint arthroplasty surgery facility costs and resource ...

Karl-Anthony Towns has a bone chip in his sprained right thumb, Stefan Bondy of The New York Post reports. The injury came on Monday, when Towns' New York Knicks lost to the Detroit Pistons.

Matt Kuhnemann is in serious doubt for the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka after the recalled spinner hurt his thumb playing for Brisbane Heat. The left-arm offspinner ran from the ground in agony on ...

New Hampshire's attorney general is signing off on the sale of Manchester's Catholic Medical Center to an out-of-state for-profit company.The proposed $110 million deal has been in the works since ...

where the thumb meets the wrist. This joint, called the carpometacarpal (CMC) joint or the basilar joint, is important when trying to grip or pinch. Thumb arthritis is more common in women than men ...