This remarkable procedure allows us to detect and treat areas of “scar tissue” or adhesions in muscles, tendons and ligaments that can reduce ... and the area of pain or restriction. The unaided hand ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and ...

Scar tissue develops within the flexor sheath, decreasing the space available for the tendons. Late direct repair ... Pa and Dr. Litts is staff hand surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center ...

These used to happen when people cut their hand while slicing bagels ... Often the tendon overdoes it and makes too much matrix, so patients form too much scar tissue and the tendon loses some of its ...

Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial ...

proliferation and maturation response , resulting in formation of hypertrophic intramuscular tendon scar tissue. Retraction of the stumps of intramuscular tendon lesions is generally limited as the ...

[6] These complications include skin necrosis, wound infection, sural neuromas, adhesions of the scar to the ... the options for soft tissue coverage over the Achilles tendon are limited.

The Netherlands Objective To assess whether three-dimensional imaging of the Achilles tendon by ultrasonographic tissue characterisation (UTC) can differentiate between symptomatic and asymptomatic ...