Your hand consists of your wrist, palm, and fingers. The wrist has many smaller bones and joints, allowing the hand to move in different directions. It also includes the distal ends of the forearm ...

Bone density tests (also called bone ... pDXA (peripheral dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) measures the wrist or heel. QUS (quantitative ultrasound) uses sound waves to measure density, usually ...

When your wrist is less extended, the radius bone takes the force of impact resulting ... both growth and healing by applying either ultrasound or a low level of electricity to the injured bone.

Doctors in Scotland have taken ultrasound technology – which we commonly associate with imaging baby bumps – and used it to treat fractured bones. For patients with really bad breaks ...