Traditionally, wrist fusion has been the gold standard for pan-carpal wrist arthritis due to low complication rates, pain relief and durability.But one of the disadvantages of wrist fusion lies in ...

Most patients prefer the return of the normal, although somewhat limited movement that hand and wrist arthroplasty provides. But, according to the presenter of the Watson Jones Lecture at the ...

New midcarpal-based total wrist replacement relieves pain and restores a more natural range of motion.

Wrist replacement is much more complicated than hip and knee replacement. More than a dozen bones lie beneath the skin and muscles of the hand and wrist, compared with two or three for those ...

After years of suffering with pain in her left wrist, Keisha Triplett underwent total wrist replacement surgery at Henry Ford West Bloomfield, becoming the first patient in the Henry Ford Health ...

WristMotion Total Wrist Arthroplasty limited launch initiated Anika Therapeutics Inc. WristMotion WristMotion Total Wrist Arthroplasty System illustration and implant construct BEDFORD, Mass ...

When arthritis makes doing even the simplest things with your hands impossible, many doctors in the United States have only recently begun to reconsider total wrist replacement. Houston Public ...

Integra LifeSciences released the Integra Freedom Wrist Arthroplasty System in the United States. The system, which is used in the treatment of wrist arthritis, has been successfully implanted in ...

But not so much with the joint you probably use the most -- your wrist. That may be changing, as CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reports on a total wrist replacement decades in the making.

The first-ever wrist replacement has been conducted in Stornoway, marking a “landmark moment” for surgery for remote communities. Donald Morrison, from Lewis, was the first patient in Stornoway to ...

Tim Ablethorpe, an insurance manager from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was given a hemi-wrist arthroplasty – a half-wrist replacement – earlier this year.