Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...

This image shows the upper and lower limb bones of those adults found in Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases. In most neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have developed an innovative inflatable robotic hand that allows upper limb amputees imme ...

RevBio® announced today that TETRANITE, the company’s first of its kind regenerative “bone glue” has been approved for a 20-patient pilot study to measure the biomaterial’s safety and efficacy to ...

A patient dubbed “the real bionic woman” has become the first to receive a robotic limb fused with both her nervous and skeletal systems. Karin, a 50-year-old woman from Sweden, had the intelligent ...

Robinow syndrome disorders are very rare, but their consequences can be profound. Babies born with the genetic condition often have a cleft palate and develop short limbs by the time they reach 18 ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WSMV) - Researchers at East Tennessee State University discovered an upper arm bone of an animal that they believe to be a member of an extinct group more commonly called ...

Differences between limbs aren’t uncommon as you’re growing. One arm may be slightly longer than the other. One leg may be a few millimeters shorter than the other. From time to time, however, pairs ...