A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

Preoperative (4a) and postoperative (4b) lateral radiographs of this softball player's finger reveal a intra-articular growth plate injury of the distal phalanx.

Introduction Distal radius fractures account for one-fifth of all fractures in the active elderly population and may cause chronic pain, loss of hand function and reduced work productivity, imposing a ...

In the context of wearable technologies, it is often important for the fingers to be unconstrained so that they can be used to explore the environment. In this paper, we explored the feasibility of ...

Plain radiography of the affected finger showed a type-IV osteomyelitis with full-thickness bone sequestrum of the DP and the distal third of the middle phalanx (MP; figure 2). Complete destruction ...

The fingertip angle of incidence at contact in lateral touch is a determinant of its mechanical responses at different scales. In the experiment, we made use of a grooved pulley to stress regions of ...

Characteristic in both cases were the distal limb defects with brachytelephalangism and aplasia of the distal phalanges of the first toe. Since one of the two sibs had severe lung hypoplasia without ...

Patients typically present with pain and swelling in the UCL or at the base of the thumb with decreased range of motion of the MCP of thumb. 10 Interestingly, the site of a thumb UCL tear or rupture ...

20.08.2013: Review article - .BACKGROUND Syndactyly or webbed fingers is one of the most common congenital malformations of the upper extremities, but it comprises few new cases annually. The purpose ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common cardiovascular disease associated with increased risk of amputation, myocardial infarction, stroke, and death, as well as impaired quality of life (QOL), ...