They’re built to sustain the stress, but only up to a point. As a result, repetitive use injuries and arthritis are common.

The Jazz announced Friday that Sexton sustained a left fourth finger Distal Interphalangeal joint avulsion fracture during Thursday's loss to San Antonio, but he will continue to play as tolerated.

Each of your fingers has three knuckles, and your thumb has two. The knuckles are called the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints, proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints, and distal interphalangeal (DIP) ...

My 8-year-old, Michael, had me concerned. He was finishing up third grade and still sucked his thumb. "What can I do to make him stop?" I asked my pediatrician. His grandmother had been successful ...

While dactylitis refers to nonspecific inflammation of a finger or toe, blistering distal dactylitis specifically refers to a periungual infection, most often caused by group A hemolytic streptococci.

Given the fact that this patient's tumor was recurrent after previous treatment, had illdefined clinical borders, was HPV 16 positive, and was located on the distal aspect of the finger (where ...

What if you kept nibbling? What if you started biting? Would it be anatomically and psychologically possible to bite your own finger off? What about someone else’s finger? It’s a question that ...

A Palo Alto police officer blew off a man's little finger with a rubber bullet earlier this year during a SWAT team standoff ...

One finger, one thumb, keep moving One finger, one thumb, keep moving One finger, one thumb, keep moving We’ll all be merry and bright. One finger, one thumb, one arm, keep moving One finger ...

A man in his 40s presented to the dermatology outpatient department with a two month history of a painful black, gangrenous tip to his left middle finger, which initially had been dry but progressed ...

I didn’t fully appreciate the injustice of a football injury when a flag is thrown until I tried to wrestle my cats’ food ...