Your hand consists of your wrist, palm, and fingers. The wrist has many smaller bones and joints, allowing the hand to move in different directions. It also includes the distal ends of the forearm ...

Broken Hand and Wrist Bones People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also ...

Featured Synovectomy can make a drastic difference in how your hand or wrist works and get rid of pain. A day or two after surgery, you’ll start rehab to work on flexing the joint.

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

The bone's shape—with a large V-shaped notch—also allows the pisiform of birds to clasp their hand bones to stop them from dislocating during flight. Therefore, this bone is an important part ...

Certified hand therapist Brenda Cummings says, "Wrist braces for carpal tunnel work by keeping your wrist in a neutral position to alleviate pressure from the median nerve." To be effective ...

Scaphoid fracture is a break in the scaphoid bone, one of the small bones in your wrist. Breaks are often caused during falls or as a result of repeated use of the wrist in sports such as skiing ...

When this bone gets displaced from its normal position, you feel severe pain in your hand and find it hard to lift heavy objects. The scaphoid fracture can happen to people of all ages.

The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight. A new study suggests that the bone appeared ...

Tan Tock Seng Hospital sees about 600 people aged 50 and above with wrist fractures each year. Read more at straitstimes.com.