Health
How to take your pulse
Your pulse is your heart rate, or the number of times your heart beats in one minute. You can take your pulse using the radial artery in your wrist or the carotid artery in your neck.
Mar 26, 2020
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News tagged with wrist
Arthritis & Rheumatism
FDA approves new total wrist replacement device to treat painful arthritis
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new total wrist replacement device for people seeking relief from painful arthritis. The design is the culmination of three decades of award-winning research by Scott ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Smart phone posturing: Lie on your side to avoid aches and pain
It's perhaps the news lazy phone users have been dreaming of. Researchers have demonstrated that lying on your side and holding your phone is the best posture to avoid pain and problems in the upper back, arms and wrists.
Feb 28, 2020
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Surgery
Obesity, smoking do not impact long-term healing of wrist fractures
(HealthDay)—Excellent clinical and radiographic outcomes can be achieved with surgery for displaced wrist fractures in patients who are obese and in those who smoke, according to a study published in the December issue ...
Dec 18, 2019
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A workout to protect your thumbs
The range of motion of the human thumb makes so many everyday hand movements possible. Whether you're an athlete gripping sports equipment, a baker whisking egg whites or a do-it-yourselfer hammering a nail, you'd be at a ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Living with repetitive strain injury
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) can affect anyone who uses his or her hands a lot and repeats the same movements over and over again. It can develop whether you're working at a computer all day or spending hours of leisure ...
Jul 29, 2019
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Surgery
A better avenue for neurosurgery to improve outcomes
For years cardiologists have threaded hair-like surgical instruments through arteries in the wrist, as an access point to perform procedures on the heart. For procedures in the brain, however, neurosurgeons more commonly ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Get in shape for tennis and other racquet sports
(HealthDay)—Playing singles tennis is a great way to have fun and exercise, and if you have access to an indoor court, it can be a year-round workout option that builds camaraderie along with muscle tone.
Mar 4, 2019
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Avoiding overuse wrist injuries
It may seem hard to believe, considering that you use your hands and wrists to do almost everything, but some of the most common wrist injuries are caused by overuse and repetitive motion. Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic ...
Mar 1, 2019
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Medical research
MRI and computer modeling reveals how wrist bones move
We use our wrists constantly, but how do they work? In a just-published Journal of Biomechanics article, the researchers proved a longtime assumption about individuals' right and left wrists, while also finding differences ...
Feb 13, 2019
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