Another surgical option is partial or total removal of the trapezium (the bone that forms the base of the joint), accompanied by rerouting an expendable tendon near the thumb. The tendon is re-routed ...

This procedure stabilizes the CMC joint by removing a portion of the damaged ligament and replacing it with a piece of the patient’s wrist flexor tendon. “The transposed tendon reconnects and restores ...

The wrist is one of the most complicated joints in the body ... Many tendons connecting the forearm muscles to the fingers and thumb run through the wrist. Extensor tendons on the back of the wrist ...

or at the joint nearest the tip of the thumb fingernail, but the underlying condition is usually localized nearer the middle of the finger. Causes of trigger finger There are pulleys and tendons in ...

The carpal bones are bound in two groups of four bones: Each thumb has two joints ... which secretes a fluid to lubricate the joints. Ligaments and Tendons The ligaments are tough bands of connective ...

Increased enhancement in the volar plate was seen in 2 fingers (2/5 the finger joints (40%), mild) and in the plantar plate ligament of 1 toe (1/5 MTP joint (20%), moderate). No patients showed ...

A hook was inserted pulling the tendon and the joint was reduced. The capsule and the collateral ligament was repaired. The thumb was immobilised in 20 degrees of flexion. After two weeks mobilisation ...

During the surgery, a small bone in the wrist called the trapezium is removed and replaced with an implant or a piece of tendon (graft). This bone is part of the carpometacarpal (CMC) joint, which ...

Medically reviewed by Stuart Hershman, MD Carpometacarpal (CMC) joint arthroplasty is a surgery used to treat thumb arthritis ...