Understanding the anatomy involved helps explain why these specific movements matter. Our hands contain 27 bones, over 30 muscles, and numerous tendons, ligaments, and nerves—all working ...

Wrist conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome do disproportionately affect women, although it's not clear why, Chaudhari said. "There have historically been several theories about what wrist ...

The median nerve isn’t the only nerve that helps move your hand, though. Its partners, the ulnar nerve and radial nerve, also direct hand and wrist movement and transmit sensation.

Using fast MRI, UC Davis researchers scanned left and right wrists of men and women and used the data to build computer models of the movement of wrist bones. The data could help understand wrist ...

The joint, developed as part of a project by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and prosthetic company Integrum AB, lets amputees make more natural movements, like rotating ...

Turn your wrist 180 degrees, so the hand is palm up, and it is fully supinated. Most of us probably take it for granted, but this is an essential movement that we use every day.