Tag: Arm

Star Wars fan, 11, who lost his legs and one of his hands to meningitis gets a £10,000 R2-D2-themed bionic arm Kye Vincent hit by meningitis in April 2016, spending 38 weeks in hospital He lost both his legs below the knee, part of his right hand and all of his left hand But his

Christie Brinkley just revealed why she’s no longer a vegetarian on Instagram. She explained that she recently added salmon to her diet to help with healing her broken arm from Dancing With the Stars training. Christie also said she’s eating a lot of Vitamin C, turmeric, and colorful fruits and veggies. Since breaking her arm

New research published in Frontiers in Neurology finds that robotic arm rehabilitation in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, the loss of ability to understand or express speech, may promote speech and language function recovery. Robotic arm rehabilitation is a commonly-used intervention for treating impaired motor function in the arm, wrist, or shoulder subsequent to stroke.

Man has his arm amputated after sushi dish leads to flesh-rotting ulcers A 71-year-old South Korean man developed large blisters and a fever as a result of a bacterial infection caught from eating raw seafood in a sushi dish. 25 days after eating the meal, the man had to have his left hand and forearm

A 71-year-old man needed his forearm amputated after eating raw seafood, according to a case report in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The unnamed man went to a South Korea emergency room after having a fever for two days and “excruciating pain” in his left hand. The cause? A dark