A congenital additional finger brings motor advantages, new research shows. Polydactyly is the extraordinary condition of someone being born with more than five fingers or toes. In a case study ...

Your hand consists of your wrist, palm, and fingers. The wrist has many smaller bones and joints, allowing the hand to move in different directions. It also includes the distal ends of the forearm ...

You may not realize your hands hold a bevy of secrets about the deepest aspects of yourself and the core of who you really are, but they do! Your hands are like mirrors, reflecting who you are, how ...

A prototype 3D-printed myoelectric prosthetic hand developed in Japan successfully passed a test by an upper-arm amputee, performing a series of intricate finger motions with more than 90% accuracy.

Trigger finger is one of the most common hand conditions. Trigger finger occurs when your tendons become inflamed and swollen. This can lead to your tendons getting caught in your tendon sheath, ...

The primitive five-fingered human hand is in need of an upgrade, according to researchers at MIT. So they’ve created a wrist-mounted robot that adds two long fingers to your hand so you can perform ...

The issue of hand size became a peculiar source of battle and mockery in the 2016 presidential campaign, when then candidate, now President, Trump and Senator Marco Rubio sparred about small hands ...

A new glove with more than three dozen actuators across all five fingers and the palm, developed by Cornell researchers, aims ...

Hand surgeon Scott Hansen, MD (third from left), with San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb (left) and members of the Giants’ training staff. When hand surgeon Scott Hansen, MD, operates on patients ...