Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aside from the hand, the most common level of amputation in the upper extremity is the transradial amputation; ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, Bryan J. Loeffler, MD, demonstrates the technique orthopedic surgeons at OrthoCarolina use for ...

Performed early – at the time of amputation – a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) can reduce pain scores and prevent complications related to abnormal nerve regrowth, suggests a ...

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has completed three targeted muscle reinnervation surgeries in the past year for pediatric patients with traumatic upper extremity amputations. The surgeries were ...

Waltham — January 4, 2024 — Performed early – at the time of amputation – a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) can reduce pain scores and prevent complications related to abnormal ...

A team of Johns Hopkins University students are among the finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition for inventing a device to reduce pain from nerve damage in people with amputations. Johns ...

Losing an arm cuts more than muscle and bone. It also severs the easy, wordless link between what you want to do and what your hand can actually do. For many people with prosthetic arms, that link ...

FAIRLAWN, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center hand and upper extremity surgeon, John Dietrich, M.D., and Crystal Clinic Plastic Surgeons physician Derek Cody, M.D., ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A technique called targeted muscle reinnervation may help people with arm and hand amputations move their prosthetic limbs more naturally, according to a report in this ...

A new technique— targeted muscle reinnervation* -- that allows a neuro-controlled prosthetic arm to move as if it is a real limb, is reported in an Article in this week's issue of The Lancet.

Targeted muscle reinnervation is a surgical procedure in which the cut nerve is transferred, i.e., "re-wired" to a working nerve in an adjacent muscle. First developed to enhance control of prostheses ...