Our hands enable nearly everything we do—from essential self-care tasks like buttoning shirts and preparing meals to expressive activities like typing, painting, or playing musical instruments. Yet ...

Background. Following a motorcycle accident, a 9-year-old boy experienced a complete right-sided (dominant) arm and hand paralysis with total sensory loss, Horner syndrome and severe constant pain.

For patients with amputations affecting the hand, toe transfer surgery provides an alternative to replanting the amputated digits and may lead to greater improvement in hand function and other key ...