wrist 1 2

Tag: "wrist" at medical news

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

1 2 3