A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases. In most neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), ...

Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...

The UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Hand and Upper Extremity Section specializes in the research, education, diagnosis, and treatment of a spectrum of disorders and injuries of the upper ...

The UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Hand and Upper Extremity Section provides comprehensive hand, upper extremity and microvascular surgery services. Research is not only fueled by faculty ...

Service members experience 25 million limited duty days annually due to injuries, most of which are musculoskeletal injuries, also known as MSKI. When on limited duty status, a service member may not ...

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to ...

The concern with the cervical herniated disk and the popular whiplash injury as a source of pain in the upper extremity may exclude consideration of a more distal origin of such pain. It is the ...

With a wrench in hand, Andrea Modica makes a final adjustment to the gleaming metallic joint on the prosthetic leg strapped to his left thigh. He stands and walks a few steps along the neon-lit ...

Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...