Your toes might be the weakest link in your workout — Here’s the research

Looking at the research, toe strength could be the gym edge many of us are ignoring, and weak toes really could be holding us ...
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Flexor digitorum longus tendon transfer, lengthening osteotomy successful in treatment of flatfoot

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO – Researchers found that lengthening osteotomies of the calcaneus and flexor digitorum longus tendon ...
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Device is alternative to suture repair of zone 2 flexor digitorum profundus tendons

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A coupler device designed to mitigate the risk of repair rupture after zone 2 flexor tendon repairs was ...
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Rupture of the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis

A 32-year-old man had a sharp laceration of the FDS and FDP tendons of the right index finger in zone 2. Repair was done 3 days after injury, and the patient was begun on the Chow protocol. [2] Twelve ...
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Rupture of the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis

Eighteen cases of isolated FDS avulsion have been reported in the English-language literature; all were at the insertion of the tendon. [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] The mechanism of injury is thought to be sudden ...