A tendon is a type of body tissue that connects muscle to bone. If a tendon becomes inflamed — painful and swollen — the condition is called tendonitis. In your hands, there are so-called extensor ...

Extensor digitorum longus The extensor digitorum longus muscle is located at the front of the leg and is adjacent to the peroneus brevis muscle and the tibialis anterior muscle. This wing-shaped ...

In many revision total knee arthroplasty cases, the knee can be exposed through a medial parapatellar approach. However, sometimes lateral patellar retraction during the medial parapatellar approach ...

Extensor carpi ulnaris muscle seen on the ulnar side of both of this golfer's wrists. The ECU tendon passes through a fibro-osseous tunnel (the sixth extensor compartment) as it leaves the forearm, ...

Background Muscle morphology, age and gender may be determinants of muscle strength in older adults. However, very few research studies have directly examined such correlation in the ageing spine. The ...

Distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMNs) are pure motor peripheral neuropathies, but are otherwise a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by weakness and ...