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 ...

Researchers found the new control system allowed five targeted muscle reinnervation, or TMR, patients to complete 10 different elbow, wrist and hand motions quickly and consistently with a virtual arm ...

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 limb may need to be amputated for a variety of reasons, including peripheral vascular disease, infection, trauma and cancer. When the limb is amputated, nerves at the end of the residual limb are ...

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 ...

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 can be used in the NHS, while more evidence is generated, as a secondary procedure to treat problematic pain that has developed after limb amputation. It can only be used ...