The Detroit Tigers go into Friday's schedule of games still holding the best record in MLB at 37-20, a half-game better than the Philadelphia Phillies. Yet maintaining that top spot could be tenuous ...

Just when the Tigers seemed to be inching close to full strength for the first time all year, the injury bug is multiplying on them yet again. The latest victim is rookie starter Jackson Jobe, who was ...

Dupuytren’s contracture is a hand condition that gradually causes the connective tissue under the skin of the palm to thicken ...

If the tunnel narrows or the tissue around the tendons swells ... and your hand may become so weak or numb you have trouble holding a book, driving or grasping small objects. With OA, bony nodules ...

Saturday morning, the Red Sox announced Casas has suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in his left knee. Casas has been placed on the 10-day injured list, and Boston called up infielder Abraham ...

It’s also important that you focus on building muscle strength at the same time you’re trying to build tendon strength. These two go hand-in-hand – and an imbalance between the two can lead ...

Tendons connect muscles in the arm or hand to the bone to enable you to move your fingers ... to slide through the pulley as you bend your finger. You may feel a small nodule in your palm that ...

In severe cases, you might have to use your opposite hand to straighten your finger out after you bend it. Trigger thumb can also cause a nodule, or "bump," on the tendon, which you can feel at the ...

Over time, the flexor tendon itself may also become inflamed and form a lump of tissue called a nodule ... and it can make using the affected hand more difficult. Luckily there are a number ...

A ganglion cyst is a fluid-filled lump in your hand. It grows from joints and tendons in your fingers and wrists. It's the most common type of lump in the hand. Doctors don't know what causes ...

Ganglion cysts are fluid-filled sacs that typically form on or near a joint or tendon. According to the ... are the most frequently forming lump in the hand. They often appear on the back of ...

When you flex or grip your hand, a tendon on every finger moves back and forth ... This can happen if part of the tendon sheath becomes inflamed or the tendon develops a small lump. In most cases of ...