One of the most overlooked areas of strength training for football players is the proper development of hand and forearm strength. Virtually every aspect of the game requires strong and powerful hand ...

A Portland trauma surgeon needed unusual tools Thursday for the operation: a glue gun, aluminum foil, plastic wrap and orange string. Dr. Albert Chi even called out for scotch tape as if asking for a ...

A team of scientists working for the Army are developing a promising new technology to keep soldiers' hands warm in cold environments without gloves. The new device is a simple heating band that’s ...

Pulses of electricity delivered to a precise location on the spinal cord have helped two stroke patients regain control of a disabled arm and hand, a team reports in the journal Nature Medicine. The ...

About 17 years ago, Keven Walgamott lost his left hand and part of his forearm in an electrical accident. Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and ...

In January, Toronto surgeons announced they had performed Canada's first hand and forearm transplant. Now, the woman at the centre of that groundbreaking surgery is going public, sharing the journey ...

Certain hand exercises can help relieve pressure on the median nerve and alleviate symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Exercises include stretches, wrist extensions, hand squeezing, and more. The ...

Our hands go through so much. From the moment we wake until we turn into bed, they’re in play, spooning breakfast cereal into mouths, smoothing hair, grappling for Oyster cards, tap, tap tapping away ...

March 29 (UPI) --Break-through technology gave a man with quadriplegia the ability to move his right arm and hand again after not being able to for nearly a decade. Bill Kochevar was paralyzed below ...

Physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins report what they believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and independently of one another using a mind-controlled ...