A tendon is a type of body tissue that connects muscle to bone. If a tendon becomes inflamed — painful and swollen — the condition is called tendonitis. In your hands, there are so-called extensor ...

The extensor apparatus of the human hand comprises a network of tendons that arise from forearm musculature and traverse the dorsal wrist to insert on the digits and thumb. While the extensor ...

Most patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand also showed inflammation and/or damage to hand tendons, a single-center study indicated. Among 86 patients with hand OA, 70% showed involvement of at ...

Five patients with recurrent dislocation of the extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) tendon resulting from an athletic injury were treated by reconstruction of the ECU tendon sheath, and each had a ...