News tagged with forearm pain

Could Texting and Mobile E-mail Be Bad For Your Health?

In a mobile communications era where we sometimes “talk” more with our fingers than our voices, a University of Cincinnati (UC) ergonomics expert says our thumbs could pay the price.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Body location plays part in scratching pleasure

An itch is just an itch. Or is it? New research from Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a world-renowned itch expert, shows that how good scratching an itch feels ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research identifies 'bath salts' as new source of flesh-eating infection

A study led by Russell R. Russo, MD, a third-year Orthopaedic Surgery resident at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis – "bath ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some exercises yield more damage than progress

Maybe the biggest barrier to working out is time. Barrier, challenge, excuse? So fitness trainers hate to see anyone frittering away precious workout periods or filling them with less-than-effective exercises. Actually, it ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Does that hurt? Objective way to measure pain being developed at Stanford

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a first step toward developing a diagnostic tool that could eliminate a major hurdle in pain medicine — the dependency on self-reporting to measure ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

PossessedHand: Technology group develops device to move your fingers for you

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an interesting meshing of robotics and prosthetics development, Japanese researchers from Tokyo University working in conjunction with Sony Corporation, have created an external forearm ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Pain and heartache are bound together in our brains

Like a jab in the arm with a red-hot poker, social rejection hurts. Literally. A new study finds that our brains make little distinction between the sting of being rebuffed by peers - or by a lover, boss or family member ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Study illuminates the 'pain' of social rejection

Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection "hurt" in the same way, a new study shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Vibration helps reduces pain in chronic sufferers, researchers find

Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robot therapy can improve arm, shoulder mobility after stroke

Therapy in which robots manipulate paralyzed arms, combined with standard rehabilitation, can improve arm and shoulder mobility in patients after stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hope for severe cold hands

Many people experience painful, numb cold hands as they go back and forth into wintry weather. Yet for some people cold, swollen, chapped hands may be a sign of blocked or constricted blood vessels. Most of these cases are ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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