Effect of Optimum Motor Relearning Programme on Hand Function of Stroke Patients by Jie CHEN, Fuchun WU, Guoqing MO, Debiao YU

“…The hand function of patients in the two groups was assessed by Wrist part of Fugl-Meyer Assessment Upper Extremity (FMA-UE), Motor Function Status Scale (MSS) and Modified Barthel Index (MBI) before and 4, 6, 8 weeks after treatment and a 3-month follow-up on the patients leaving hospital.Results:After 4, 6 and 8 weeks of treatment, FMA-UE and MBI of the two groups were increased significantly (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Sports Injuries Seen in Korfball Players: Assessment of Injuries’ Areas and Types by Mahmut Alp, Mahmut Özdinç

“…The body was divided into nine sections: neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, back, waist, hip-thigh, knee, foot-ankle. …”
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Epithelioid Hemangioma of the Carpus Presenting as Aneurysmal Bone Cyst by Juston Fan, DO, William H. Fang, DO, MS, Evelyn Thomas, DO, Ali Nael, MD, Mark N. Halikis, MD, Amirhossein Misaghi, MD

“…An 18-year-old boy presented with a painful dorsal mass on the right wrist, exhibiting features on preoperative imaging consistent with an expansile, radiolucent lesion. …”
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Coronavirus Disease-19 associated arthritis – An observational study by Debanjali Sinha, Sumantro Mondal, Alakendu Ghosh

“…Knee was the most commonly involved joint (78.6%), followed by the wrist and metacarpophalangeal joints (each in 57.1%). …”
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Physical Therapists Use of Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging in Clinical Practice: A Review of Case Reports by Robert Manske, Katherine Podoll, Alycia Markowski, Maureen Watkins, Lorna Hayward, Murray Maitland

“…Most common anatomical regions scanned were the foot and lower leg (23%), thigh and knee (19%), shoulder and shoulder girdle (16%), lumbopelvic region (14%), and elbow/wrist and hand (12%). Fifty-eight percent of the cases were deemed static, while 14% reported using dynamic imaging. …”
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Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by Paulo Alonso Garcia Alves Junior, Daniel Luis Gilban Schueftan, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça, Maria Lucia Fleiuss Farias, Izabel Calland Ricarte Beserra

“…Patients aged between 5 and 19 years underwent radiography of the hand and wrist followed by total body and lumbar spine densitometry. …”
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Orthopaedic Aspects of Marfan Syndrome: The Experience of a Referral Center for Diagnosis of Rare Diseases by Fernando De Maio, Alessandro Fichera, Vincenzo De Luna, Federico Mancini, Roberto Caterini

“…In 88 patients (60.2%), the associated “wrist and thumb sign” was present; in 58 patients (39.7%), pectus carinatum deformity; in 44 patients (30.1%), pectus excavatum; in 49 patients (33.5%), severe flatfoot; in 31 patients (21.2%), hindfoot deformity; in 54 patients (36.9%), reduced US/LS ratio or increased arm span-height ratio; in 37 patients (25.3%), scoliosis or thoracolumbar kyphosis; in 22 patients (15%), reduced elbow extension (170° or less). …”
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WearMoCap: multimodal pose tracking for ubiquitous robot control using a smartwatch by Fabian C. Weigend, Neelesh Kumar, Oya Aran, Heni Ben Amor

“…Our Upper Arm mode provides the most accurate wrist position estimates with a Root Mean Squared prediction error of 6.79 cm. …”
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Isolated Sporothrix schenckii Monoarthritis by Aram Barbaryan, Wissam El Atrouni, Stefania Bailuc, Matthew W. Jones, Maharshi Bhakta, Khaldoun Haj Mahmoud, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov

“…Sporothrical arthritis most commonly infects knee joint followed by hand and wrist joints. A culture of Sporothrix schenkii sensu lato is the gold standard for the diagnosis of sporotrichosis. …”
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Ischemic monomelic neuropathy following arteriovenous fistula surgery: a case report by Da Woon Kim, You Hyun Jeon, Miju Bae, Sang Heon Song

“…A nerve conduction study above the wrist revealed reduced compound muscle action potential (CMAP) of the left ulnar nerve and no CMAP of the left median nerve. …”
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Restoration of Central Programmed Movement Pattern by Temporal Electrical Stimulation-Assisted Training in Patients with Spinal Cerebellar Atrophy by Ying-Zu Huang, Yao-Shun Chang, Miao-Ju Hsu, Alice M. K. Wong, Ya-Ju Chang

“…The EMG of the agonist extensor carpi radialis muscle and antagonist flexor carpi radialis muscle, premovement motor evoked potentials (MEPs) of the flexor carpi radialis muscle, and the constant and variable errors of movements were assessed before and after 4 weeks of ES-assisted fast goal-directed wrist extension training in the training group and of general health education in the control group. …”
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Effectiveness of Contralaterally Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation versus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Upper Limb Motor Functional Recovery in Subacute Stroke... by Songhua Huang, Peile Liu, Yinglun Chen, Beiyao Gao, Yingying Li, Chan Chen, Yulong Bai

“…Both groups underwent routine rehabilitation plus 20-minute stimulation on wrist extensors per day, five days a week, for 3 weeks. …”
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Quantifying the Elasticity Properties of the Median Nerve during the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 by Ming Lin, Yaodong Chen, Weixin Deng, Hongying Liang, Suiqing Yu, Zhijie Zhang, Chunlong Liu

“…The median nerve was imaged during elbow extension in the following postures: (1) with neutral posture, (2) with wrist extension (WE), (3) with contralateral cervical flexion (CCF), and (4) with both WE and CCF. …”
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Data-Efficient Bone Segmentation Using Feature Pyramid- Based SegFormer by Naohiro Masuda, Keiko Ono, Daisuke Tawara, Yusuke Matsuura, Kentaro Sakabe

“…Testing our model on spine images from the Cancer Imaging Archive and our own hand and wrist dataset, ablation studies confirmed that our modifications outperform the original SegFormer, U-Net, and Mask2Former. …”
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Change in Reciprocal Inhibition of the Forearm with Motor Imagery among Patients with Chronic Stroke by Michiyuki Kawakami, Kohei Okuyama, Yoko Takahashi, Miho Hiramoto, Atsuko Nishimura, Junichi Ushiba, Toshiyuki Fujiwara, Meigen Liu

“…All patients imagined wrist extension on the affected side. RI from the extensor carpi radialis to the flexor carpi radialis (FCR) was assessed using a FCR H reflex conditioning-test paradigm. …”
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Historical development of accelerometry measures and methods for physical activity and sedentary behavior research worldwide: A scoping review of observational studies of adults. by Kelly R Evenson, Elissa Scherer, Kennedy M Peter, Carmen C Cuthbertson, Stephanie Eckman

“…Accelerometers were more commonly worn on the hip (48.4%) as compared to the wrist (22.3%), thigh (5.4%), other locations (14.9%), or not reported (9.0%). …”
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Multiple Acrometastases in a Patient with Renal Pelvic Urothelial Cancer by Ryoko Sawada, Yusuke Shinoda, Aya Niimi, Tohru Nakagawa, Masachika Ikegami, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Sakae Tanaka, Yukio Homma, Nobuhiko Haga

“…After two regimens of chemotherapy, he suffered from pain on his wrist and ankle and swelling and hemorrhage of his toe. …”
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Variations of the ulnar nerve within the ulnar tunnel and palm in a select South African population by Lutho Daza, Julia Fernandes, Geney Gunston, Jeshika Luckrajh-Williams

“…Background: Ulnar tunnel syndrome (UTS) is a rare peripheral neuropathy associated with the entrapment of the distal portion of the ulnar nerve (UN) in its course through the fibro-osseous ulnar tunnel (eponymously known as Guyon's canal) at the wrist. The UN within the ulnar tunnel is prone to injury or compression resulting in an UTS. …”
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Association of loneliness with the risk of pain in older Chinese adults by Aijun Song, Siying Yu, Yao Shen, Zongyan Guo, Jian Shi

“…Using robust mixed-effects logistic regression models, the study found that lonely participants were more likely to experience 12 site pain: headache (OR 1.23; 95% CI 1.09–1.39), shoulder (OR 1.16; 95% CI 1.04–1.30), wrist (OR 1.14; 95%CI 1.01–1.28), finger (OR 1.14, 95% CI 1.02–1.28), chest (OR 1.26; 95% CI 1.10–1.44), stomach (OR 1.28, 95% CI 1.12–1.46), back (OR 1.23; 95% CI 1.00–1.51), waist (OR 1.46; 95% CI 1.17–1.83), buttock (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.02–1.30), leg (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.08–1.33), knee (OR 1.16; 95% CI 1.04–1.30), and toe (OR 1.18; 95% CI 1.04–1.34) than participants who were not lonely. …”
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Monitoring Everyday Upper Extremity Function in Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Secondary, Retrospective Analysis from ncRNAPain by Gudrun-Karin Kindl, Ann-Kristin Reinhold, Fabiola Escolano-Lozano, Johannes Degenbeck, Frank Birklein, Heike L. Rittner, Karolin Teichmüller

“…. ± 25.2), weakness in leisure activities was recuperated, pain feelings were lessened, and ROM, e.g., wrist flexion, recovered by 36°. Two-thirds of patients improved in both the DASH and the ROM. …”
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