In the context of wearable technologies, it is often important for the fingers to be unconstrained so that they can be used to explore the environment. In this paper, we explored the feasibility of ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

The ability of underactuated hands to grasp small objects is very limited, because the precision grasp is normally unstable. The goal of this paper is to achieve stable precision grasps by means of ...

Radiographs Radiographs of both hands were taken from the dorsal surface at 55 KVp, 5 mA at a collimator distance of 100 cm. With digital vernier callipers measuring to 0.01 mm, the lengths of the ...

Antique shoppers looking for the next great addition to their collection should make plans to browse the shops at Michigan's ...

Shape and Structure The proximal phalanx shape is concave beneath, meaning it is curved inward, like the inside of a bowl. The top of the proximal phalanx is convex, having the opposite shape with an ...

Distal interphalangeal joint pain often occurs due to osteoarthritis or psoriatic arthritis. Learn more about the causes and their symptoms in this article.

These injuries are either bony (as seen) or involve tendons. Treatment is splinting or surgical pinning of the distal phalanx. This injury may take a long time to heal and must be watched closely.