wrist

Artists prone to cubital tunnel syndrome

...sed by pressure exerted on the median nerve at the wrist and cubital tunnel is caused by repeated injury/pressure on the ulnar nerve at the elbow. The conditions and treatments discussed by Dr. Simmons are not limited to performing artists such as musicians, but may also occur in other artists, such as scu...

Study casts doubt on keyboard ills

...se a severe occupational hazard for developing the wrist and hand ailment known as carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a Danish study published Tuesday.The finding was based on a survey of nearly 7,000 workers at 3,500 locations who were questioned initially on symptoms and 5,568 of the group who were ass...

Low-Dose Hormones Help the Bones

...asured the bone mineral density of the hip, spine, wrist and the total body every year for three years. They also looked at markers for bone resorption and bone formation during the study. Researchers found women who were on the low dose of estrogen had an increase in their bone mineral density at all the...

Pain Relief For Osteoarthritis Patients

...gned 10 patients with knee osteoarthritis, 10 with wrist osteoarthritis, and eight with elbow osteoarthritis to an experimental group based on the location of the diagnosed osteoarthritis. Each patient applied the cream to the affected area twice a day every day for one week. It was observed that the topi...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...rpal tunnel syndrome is a painful condition of the wrist resulting from compression of the median nerve that runs from the base of the palm up to the forearm affecting people who perform repetitive hand motions, including computer users, dental hygienists, and even golfers and tennis players. Standard tr...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

... osteoporotic fracture of bones such as the hip, wrist or spine. Yet although it is well documented that vitamin D decreases the incidence of fractures in the elderly, this is one of the first studies to investigate vitamin D’s performance in bone accumulation during adolescence. However bone growth ...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

... osteoporotic fracture of bones such as the hip, wrist or spine. Yet although it is well documented that vitamin D decreases the incidence of fractures in the elderly, this is one of the first studies to investigate vitamin D’s performance in bone accumulation during adolescence. However bone growth ...

Indian Surgeon Conducts 70 Surgeries During His Holidays In England

...n working through a backlog of minor surgeries for wrist pain, leading a team of day staff and secretaries, the Daily Telegraph reported on its front page Saturday. The condition he treated, known as carpal tunnel, requires a simple surgical operation conducted under local anaesthetic. Agarwal, who got t...

Mini motor for micromedical applications

...y could function in appliances, computers and even wrist watches. The piezoelectric motors rotate much slower so watches powered by piezoelectric motors would be mechanically simpler. br>...

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

...equipment made for their sport, such as shin pads, wrist guards, eye protection, and helmet, adds AAP President Carol Berkowitz, M.D., FAAP. Always consult your pediatrician on the sport that is right for your child’s age and abilities.” “In the past few years, since high schools and colleges began to req...

Medical Gadgets To Monitor Drug Delivery

...e and administer the correct dosage of drug. The wrist bands contain electronic system which is similar t...m Brunel University, UK has designed an electronic wrist band that ensures that patients receive the correct medication by matching an electronic chip in the...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

...ement of other joints including the hip, shoulder, wrist and elbow. Lipoma arborescens is usually mono-articular. Drs A.P. Davies and N. Blewitt, from the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, United Kingdom have recently presented a very rare case of bilateral involvement of the knee and discuss ...

New Sensor Created For Lung Disorder Patients

...ll receptacle that is pressed to the inside of the wrist where arterial blood vessels are close to the skin. The capsule collects the CO2 that diffuses from the blood out through the skin. IANS...

Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?

...n across the world on magnetic bracelets, insoles, wrist and knee bands, back and neck braces, and even pillows and mattresses. They also doubt the results obtained from various studies which claims to cure carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis. They say that such studies raise doubt and does not provid...

Ossur Acquires the U.S. Orthopaedics Company

...has product lines that address pain management and wrist braces, which are new to the Ossur product portfolio. For the fiscal year ending 31 December 2005, Innovation Sports is expecting sales of $19 million and a normalized EBITDA margin of 19%. In connection with the acquisition, Ossur expects to incur...

Physician and Patient relationship strained due to non-verbal communications

...ing on his mobile phone or frequently looks at his wrist watch and all these actions are clear signs of humiliation and anxiety. Researchers have found that these unnecessary signs of distress which strain the relationship between doctor and patient....

Height Loss Determines Risk Of Vertebral Fractures And Bone Disease

...ot seen unless it occurs in a big bone such as the wrist or hip. It is a reliable osteoporosis indicator as once it is diagnosed, suitable drugs can be given to delay onset of the disease. The authors recommend that all women above age 50 should be aware of their loss in height, if any. The results of th...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

...ange of materials such as bed and pillow textiles, wrist straps, seat linings and the frames of glasses and would be wirelessly integrated through a computer network. The measurements they would take would range from brain activity, heart rate, eye to muscle movements during your waking and sleeping hours....

Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries

... carpal tunnel syndrome, (a condition in which the wrist nerves get entangled), he/she would not be able to manage any complication related to the same. A lot of practical and professional training is being imparted before one can be qualified as a surgeon. It would therefore not be appropriate to allow a ...

Cricket Match Lands Mother and Child in ICU after Lathi Charge

... girl, Vidhi, had a broken collarbone and a broken wrist and her condition is being closely monitored by doctors. They said Vidhi had shown some improvement though she continued to be in the ICU of a hospital in Faridabad. The condition of her mother too was said to be serious with multiple internal injur...

Trans-radial Angiograms: A Boon For Cardiac Patients

...performed through the small (radial) artery in the wrist rather than the femoral artery," says Chugh, who h... in the country. He has also pioneered the "left wrist technique" in India, where the angiogram is done on the left wrist, allowing patients to go about th...

Species Linking Fish And Land Animals Found

...fin bones, concluding that the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints were capable of supporting the body-like li...n said. "The shoulder, elbow and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals." At the time that...

Suffering from computer ache: try forearm support

...rvice work. Those people most commonly suffer from wrist tendonitis, elbow tendonitis and muscle strain of ...yboard use and sustained awkward postures, such as wrist extension, are the most consistently observed risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders," Rempel ad...

Forearm Support for Office Desks Could Be a Boon

...culoskeletal injuries in the neck, shoulders, arm, wrist or hand. The results of the study have been published in the British Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. According to Dr. David Rempel, the lead study author and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Franci...

Forearm Support Promises Fewer on the Job Injury for Computer Professionals

...ey suffered less pain in the neck, shoulders, arm, wrist or hand. The findings were published in the latest issue of the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The forearm support consists of a padded board that attaches to the front edge of workers desks. The support is placed right under the ...

Budhia Singh - Youngest Athlete To Be Dope Tested?

... availability of investigative reports like MRI of wrist joint, L S spine, both knee and ankle joints.....Karyo typing and dope testing," the medical report said. Dr Sugat Kar, who is the chief medical officer of Capital Hospital and member of the medical team, which tested Budhia, was pleasantly surpris...

PM Undergoes Wrist Surgery, Returns Home

...h underwent a minor surgical procedure on his left wrist at the Army's Research and Referral Hospital here this morning. // 'The operation on the left wrist follows a similar procedure on his right wrist on October 13, 2005. This completes the procedure adv...

Sensing Devices to Measure Sleep In the Pipeline

... various areas such as mattress, pillow, textiles, wrist straps, seat linings and the frames of glasses. This would enable the patient to give proper data without the patient not going to the hospital. Dr Evangelos Bekiaris, project coordinator says that the hospital tests are costly and since monitoring ...

New Laparoscopic Surgery to Correct Vaginal Vault Prolapse Is Effectual Than the Conventional Surgery

...ify its technically difficult aspects, such as the wrist strain involved in tying a large number of knots. The investigators analyzed the results of the surgery for 21 of the women who were 12 or more months post-surgery. The average follow-up time for the patients involved was 24 months, with a range o...

Health Hazards Faced By Small Children

...ren. Researches have advised wearing helmets and wrist guards especially when ice-skating to prevent head and facial injuries....

Stroke Rehabilitation Through Modified Video Games

...al Reality P5 gaming glove that detects finger and wrist motions to manipulate on-screen images. The engineers made minor modifications to the equipment and created software that delivers two types of finger flexing exercises needed to help recover hand functions in stroke patients. In one exercise, a pa...

Avoid "BlackBerry Thumb"

... avoiding thumb-typing and using a support for the wrist may overcome these problems. RAS...

Season for Ladder Accidents!!

...ies are '100 percent preventable.' They range from wrist fractures to severe brain and spinal trauma, even death.' GYT...

Tennis Elbow is Not Caused Due to Improperly Sized Tennis Racket Grip

...acts between the ball and racket coupled with poor wrist stability especially during the backhand swing. The backhand stroke seems to be the culprit because it results in overexertion and micro-tearing within two primary muscles inside the forearm. Hatch and coauthors at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic st...

Women Faces No Risk on Discontinuation of Osteoporosis Drug

...ncrease bone density and reduce the risk of spine, wrist and hip fractures in postmenopausal women. Bisphosphonates are the most commonly used treatment for postmenopausal osteoporosis. The initial study was named the Fracture Intervention Trial or FIT, and its results were reported in 1996 and 1998. ...

Woman Undergoes Double Hand Transplant

...as two new hands and forearms two inches above the wrist bone. It'll be five or six months before she has any feeling. She’s delighted, because after 28 years without hands, she sees herself with some perfectly beautiful ones. She will have two useful hands that will allow her an independent life. It is mu...

Nine Ways to Relieve Joint Stress

...ation in the ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow and wrist can cause pain, swelling and limited motion. If you have joint pain or suffer from arthritis, no doubt you’ve already been prescribed medication by your doctor to reduce these symptoms. But there’s a lot you can do yourself—apart from taking your med...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

...individuals picking the region halfway between the wrist and the elbow for its convenience. "It's not where they wash their hands," explains Dr. Blaser. "And they don't have to undress." The researchers wanted to be able to compare two similar parts of the body. Because they also wanted to study change ove...

More Americans Suffer from Vertebral Compression Fractures

...he condition and 2 million men. Along with hip and wrist fractures, severe osteoporosis can cause compression fractures in the spine. This occurs when the bony block or vertebral body in the spine collapses, which can lead to severe pain, deformity and loss of height. While osteoporosis is the most common ...

Computer Programmers, need not fear Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

...y. CTS happens when a nerve passing through your wrist gets pinched, usually because of arthritis, obesit... repetitive and forceful movements of the hand and wrist during work or leisure activities can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Repeated motions performed in ...

Number of Specialists Best at Treating Children's Fractures Decreasing

... playing ? Appropriate protective gear, such as wrist guards, is used during activities like rollerblading ? Kids involved in athletics receive proper training and conditioning as fatigue and weakness can lead to a stumble or fall that can result in a fracture. Source-Newswise SRM...

Sleep Quantity Affects Morning Testosterone Levels in Older Men

... addition to overnight laboratory polysomnography, wrist activity monitoring for six-to-nine days were used to determine the amount of nighttime sleep of the participants in everyday life settings. The main outcome levels were total sleep time and morning testosterone levels. Analyses revealed that the ...

Dispirited Teens Work Up Team Spirit to End Their Lives

...bourne last year. I have had plastic surgery on my wrist from cutting a tendon when I slit my wrist. I have been diagnosed with depression as well as post-traumatic stress disorder; I was raped by a so-called "friend" when I was 16. But I was depressed before then . . . I'm still in a bad way, but I'm kind...

Maninder Says Wrist Injuries Were Sustained Accidentally

...l in East Delhi after he sustained injuries on his wrist on Saturday raising speculations of a suicide att...e Delhi Police, Singh said that he had injured his wrist when the glass window panes broke when he banged his hands on them to wake his family after returnin...

1,600 Roller Shoe Injuries Reported

...of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which recommends helmets, wrist protectors and knee and elbow pads for kids who wear wheeled shoes. The academy's advice stems from recent reports from around the globe about doctors treating cracked skulls; broken wrists, arms and ankles; and dislocated elbows in kids injured we...

Computer Mouse can Cause Arm Pain

...lso be appropriate for the size of your hand. Cold wrist rests can guard against inflammation. Padded rests for the ball of the hand can also reduce the strain on the arm. Alternate input options like voice recognition or graphic tables should also be considered. "Stretching exercises, natural arm and ha...

Aging Gracefully, With a Chronic Disease

...nt work well, joints that dont work well. I have a wrist that doesnt flex and neuropathies in my legs, she says. I think its difficult when someone has a long-term disease to separate what happens as the body ages from what happens when you have a disease for a very long time. RA is debilitating for some...

Pain and Intensity Of Post-stroke Spasticity Decreased by Botox Treatment

...ons of BoNTA are safe and effective in people with wrist and finger spasticity after a stroke. About 58 p...udy, the BoNTA injections were given at the elbow, wrist and fingers and/or thumbs flexor of the affected limb to block overactive nerve impulses that trigge...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...gers to grip objects. The i-LIMB has a flexible wrist and rotating thumbs. 'And it's the first to come to the market that has bending fingers just like your own,' said Mr Gow. Lighter than a real hand, the device capitalizes on the brain's determination to try to move a limb even when it has been los...

Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful

...ange from repetitively lifting boxes to repetitive wrist extension during long-term keyboard use. Tennis el...by repetitive motion with the arm extended and the wrist moving up and down. If youve had tennis elbow for more than a year and cant get better, then it wo...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...nter trial of new devices for the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, which began last November. These devices generally do not take cues from electrical muscle activity, as the Myomo brace does, but depend instead on the observed motion (or lack of motion) of patients limbs. This means they can be used by...