Objectives: This study presents a method of assessing muscle fatigue during endurance testing at 50% maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) using electromyography (EMG) information as indirect indices fatigability in the forearm muscles, namely, flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS); carpi ulnaris (FCU); extensor (ECU) and radialis brevis (ECRB)." (ECRB). Methods: A randomized comparative experimen...

Purpose: To investigate the long-term functional and clinical outcomes of a tendon transfer to restore extension of the thumb using extensor carpi radialis brevis Methods and materials: From Jun 2005 to Sep 2012, 8 patients with rupture or division of extensor pollicis longus (6 males, 2 females; aged 16-52 years, mean age 30 years) underwent a tendon transfer using the extensor carpi radialis ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the activity of wrist extensor muscle, correlating with wrist motion during gripping after flexor tendon repair. DESIGN Cross-sectional clinical measurement study. SETTING Laboratory for biomechanics and rehabilitation. SUBJECTS A total of 11 patients submitted to rehabilitation by early passive motion of the fingers with wrist flexion position were evaluated after 8...

A 73yearold man with essential hypertension abruptly developed leftsided moderate shoulder weakness and came to our hospital. General examination demonstrated no abnormalities. Cranial nerve impairment was not detected. The patient was righthanded. Hand grasping power was 29 kg in the right and 23 kg in the left. In the upper extremities, leftsided Barré sign was detected. In the lower extremit...

We describe a case of an 8-year-old boy who developed a combined motor and sensory neuropathy of the distal ulnar nerve, after sustaining a superficial injury to the right flexor carpi ulnaris tendon at the level of the distal wrist crease. Guyon's canal syndrome is a very rare entity during childhood. We have noted only one prior description of this syndrome in the pediatric age group in a rev...

Musculoskeletal involvement is seen in only about 1.3% of all patients with tuberculosis. Very few cases of isolated tuberculous synovitis have been reported. The rarity of this condition often leads to the failure to consider tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis, resulting in delayed therapy. We present one such case of isolated tuberculous tenosynovitis of the flexor carpi ulnaris in an...

In this report we describe an unusual combination of anatomical variations in the left upper extremity. A rare case of a variant palmaris longus muscle, an unknown variation of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle and a persistent median artery were discovered during routine anatomical dissection. The anatomical aspects of these variations have been discussed in detail. We also review the clinical l...