Wrist replacement surgery, also known as total wrist arthroplasty, aims to relieve pain and restore function to a damaged wrist joint. Full recovery may take several months. Doctors may recommend ...

Making a bed may seem like a small task, but being able to do it means a lot to 79-year-old Ruby Chambers. "That's one of the things I always liked to do myself, even though I had a cleaning lady," ...

When arthritis makes doing even the simplest things with your hands impossible, many doctors in the United States have only recently begun to reconsider total wrist replacement. Houston Public Radio’s ...

While we frequently hear about the replacement of arthritic hips and knees with implants, wrists are another matter, as they're very complex joints. And although artificial wrists do nonetheless exist ...

About 800,000 people will get a knee replaced this year. More than half a million will get a new hip, and 50,000 will get their shoulder replaced. Wrist replacements are less common, but now, new ...

The total wrist replacement that took place this spring using a brand new kind of design only took two and a half hours, under the skillful hands of surgeon Dr. Scott Wolfe. But for Wolfe and a ...