You can manage joint pain with exercise, a healthy diet, physical therapy, and supportive tools. See a doctor if joint pain is sudden, severe, lasts more than a few weeks, or limits your movement.

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.

Learn easy finger exercises that prevent arthritis with simple movements that keep joints healthy and pain-free. Essential ...

Your feet are full of bones, joints, muscles and nerves. But you probably aren't paying as much attention to them as you ...

ABSTRACT: Older adults frequently find standard pill-jar designs challenging, leading to muscle and tendon strain, frustration ... and twisting actions place the greatest load on the thumb’s base and ...

These overworking muscles develop tension and trigger ... than recognizing the underlying joint degeneration. The tendons controlling thumb movement develop inflammation through specific ...

In some cases after the contracted muscles have been excised, the mobilized thumb must be reactivated by tendon transfer to compensate for the intrinsic muscle loss. Transfer of the opponens is ...

This tendon is associated with an ancient muscle known as the palmaris longus ... Touch your pinky finger to your thumb and slightly lift your hand off the surface. If you observe a raised ...

Your finger muscles are attached to tendons that run from your wrist area to your finger. A system of pulleys inside your arm holds your tendons against your bones. These same pulleys also prevent ...

To stave off gangrene, Batzer had a thumb, several fingers ... They required the engineering of much more familiar materials: muscles, tendons, and bones. When I first met Matthew Carty, a ...

and the muscles in the base of the thumb. The flexor tendons that bend the thumb also run through the carpal tunnel. Issues with the median nerve can lead to weakness. It can affect the sensation ...