Reconstruction of thumb after traumatic or congenital loss in 17 cases is reported. Cases were divided into three groups according to the level of thumb loss. There were two cases in distal zone, seven in middle and eight in proximal zone. Thirteen cases were traumatic in origin and four had congenital loss. Different reconstruction procedures were used at each level. Osteoplastic reconstructio...

CONCLUSION: Thumb injuries from fireworks result from high-energy avulsion, hyperextension, and hyperabduction, frequently injuring the thumb, destabilizing the CMC joint, and seriously damaging the first webspace. The first webspace requires particular consideration as deep injury may result in adduction contracture and require secondary reconstruction with tissue outside the zone of injury if...

PURPOSE Previously, we studied normative and reliability data of palmar thumb abduction measurements (conventional goniometry, the Pollexograph thumb, the Pollexograph metacarpal, the Inter Metacarpal Distance, the American Society of Hand Therapists method, and the American Medical Association method) in healthy adults. Because many interventions aiming to improve palmar abduction are performe...

We present models that simultaneously predict presence of dark energy and cold matter along with slow-roll inflation. The density is found to be order $({\rm a \;few \;meV})^4$, the mass constituent $\approx 1\,$ meV. These numbers are given in terms value Hubble constant $H_0$ Plank $1/\sqrt{16 \pi G_N}$: they $(H_0 M_{\rm P})^2$ for P})^{1/2}$ mass. basic framework multi-scalar tensor gravity...

Numbness within the thumb involving palmar aspect with three and a half digits as division is common presentation of peripheral nerve injury. However, it rarely observed to be presented numbness at ulnar-palmar side thumb, where longitudinal melanonychia on nail plate acts division. We present case that reveals concurrence suffered from injury during course occupational therapy.

Robots M. A. El-Dosuky 1, M. Z. Rashad 1, T. T. Hamza 1, and A.H. EL-Bassiouny 2 1 Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Computers and Information sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt Abstract For a mobile robot to be truly autonomous, it must solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. We dev...

Traumatic thumb amputation represents an extremely disabling entity, thus rendering its reconstruction a procedure of paramount importance. A case of a patient, who sustained a traumatic amputation of his left index finger at the metacarpophalangeal joint and of his left thumb in the middle of the proximal phalanx 4 months ago and was initially treated elsewhere, is described. For the thumb rec...