To check if you possess this tendon, place your forearm on a table with your palm facing upwards. Touch your pinky finger to your thumb and slightly lift your hand off the surface. If you observe ...

DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis causes swelling in the thumb tendons along the wrist to the base of the thumb. It can occur due to overuse, continuous grasping movements, or health conditions like ...

It’s also known as trigger finger. It can affect any of your fingers and your thumb or more than one at a time. Tendons connect the bones in your thumb and fingers to the muscles in your wrist ...

It was an accident that could have jeopardized the patient’s career. “He had a big metal beam or sheet that fell on his thumb ...

A thumb sprain is the stretching or damaging of the ligaments in the thumb. A ligament is a band of tough, fibrous tissue that connects bone to bone. Someone with a thumb sprain will experience ...

It occurs due to pressure on the median nerve and can cause numbness and tingling in the fingers and thumb. The median nerve runs through a narrow tunnel of surrounding bone and ligament on the ...

1). Because of the divergence of these tendons, considerable tension is exerted on the fibrous sheath on extension and abduction of the thumb. It is thought by some that this tension, exerted ...

The thumb’s ability to touch each fingertip ... The controlled extension movement helps maintain joint mobility while improving tendon gliding. Hand tendons function like complex pulley ...

Objectives: Rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is a frequent injury ... with surgical repair and surgical reconstruction of thumb UCL injuries. A secondary purpose was to compare ...

HOUSTON — Houston Astros utilityman Mauricio Dubón played the final month of the season with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb, a person with knowledge of the injury told The ...