Nerve damage generally happens slowly, says Isha Gupta, M.D., neurologist. So you might be able to catch it and prevent it ...

You have 20 muscles in your forearm, the part of your arm between your elbow and your hand. They help you move your arms, hands, and fingers and perform many of the tasks of daily life.

If these nerves get stretched, compressed, or torn due to injury, they can’t pass on signals from the brain to your arm muscles. This causes weakness and loss of movement in your arm, which is ...

Your radial nerve starts in your neck and runs down your arm. It controls the movement of the muscle in your upper arm, called the tricep. The radial tunnel is an area below your elbow.

One arm is more likely that the other to hurt during a heart attack. It's the arm that shares nerves that branch from the heart.

Muscle grafts are next selected for RPNI from the residual volar or dorsal musculature. A graft size of 3 cm x 1 cm x 1.5 cm has been shown to maximize the area for nerve ingrowth and permit graft ...

Blood vessels, nerves, and muscles that extend from the back to the arms pass through this area. If the space in the thoracic outlet is too narrow, these structures can become compressed.

The bionic arm is placed onto the amputation site and little robots are fit into the socket. Those robots press on relevant areas of the site, stimulating the nerve endings that are now attached ...

“The hand is the most complicated because there is so many little muscles and nerves, so I am able to almost close a fist on the right side. I can flicker them a little bit on the left.” ...