SAN FRANCISCO — The essentials of optic nerve examination have five basic tenets: Systemic examination, optic disc size, neuroetinal rim, peripapillary region, disc hemorrhage and nerve fiber layer, ...

Pins and needles” in your hands after exercise can be alarming. These symptoms can be caused by nerve compression, dehydration, poor form, or even tight gloves.

MOTOR regeneration of the median nerve after transection and repair of the median nerve at the wrist occurs in only about 5 per cent of cases. The thumb is incapable of abduction and opposition with ...

Claw hand deformity is a condition where your fingers are bent into a position that looks like a claw. It may affect all of your fingers or only some of them. The cause is usually related to damage to ...

Most surveyed hand surgeons who perform nerve repairs said they preferred microsuturing, but noted they would also consider using new hand surgery techniques. “Most surgeons performing nerve repairs ...

TURIN (Reuters) - A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern ...

Many of us will have seen robotics or prosthetics operated by the electrical impulses detected from a person’s nerves, or their brain. In one form or another they are a staple of both mass-market ...

A fainting episode causing traumatic nerve damage affecting his right hand could be why Leonardo da Vinci's painting skills were hampered in his late career. While the impairment affected his ability ...