Reconstruction of hand

A Comparison of Hand Pain and Hand Function after Z-plasty Reconstruction of the Transverse Carpal Ligament with Traditional Median Neurolysis in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

       Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common focal mono-neuropathy. A study was designed to compare the effects of traditional open carpal tunnel release with median neurolysis and Z-plasty reconstruction of the transverse carpal ligament on post-operative hand pain and hand function in patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome.   Methods: Fifty-two patients with idiopathi...

Synergy-based hand pose sensing: Reconstruction enhancement

Many applications in human-machine interfaces, information visualization, rehabilitation and entertainment are calling for hand pose reconstruction systems that are both accurate and economic. Unfortunately, economically and ergonomically viable sensing gloves provide limited precision due to imperfect and incomplete correspondence of sensing models with the anatomical degrees-of-freedom of the...

Upper limb flaps for hand reconstruction.

This article reviews three of the most popular upper limb flaps used in hand surgery, namely the posterior interosseous flap, the lateral arm flap and the radial forearm flap. An anatomic study performed with the use of eight fresh cadavers (sixteen upper limbs) is supported by a wide review of the literature. The combined posterior interosseous and lateral arm flap is also discussed. It is con...

3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Specialized Mappings

A system for recovering 3D hand pose from monocular color sequences is proposed. The system employs a non-linear supervised learning framework, the specialized mappings architecture (SMA), to map image features to likely 3D hand poses. The SMA’s fundamental components are a set of specialized forward mapping functions, and a single feedback matching function. The forward functions are estimated...

Parametrized SOMs for Hand Posture Reconstruction