Surg Open Sci. 2025 May 10;26:64-78. doi: 10.1016/j.sopen.2025.04.012. eCollection 2025 Jun.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly influenced various medical fields, including plastic surgery. Large language model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT and text-to-image tools lik
Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Jun 9. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.70178. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: For People with Parkinson's (PwP), motor disturbances affecting the dominant upper extremity often impacts ability to perform tasks such as writing or typing and may confound cognitive test performa
Am J Case Rep. 2025 Jun 9;26:e947664. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.947664.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND Minoxidil is a widely used topical treatment for hair loss, but improper use can lead to systemic absorption and unintended adverse effects such as hypertrichosis. Identifying risk factors for increased absorption is
Neurosurg Rev. 2025 Jun 9;48(1):497. doi: 10.1007/s10143-025-03643-6.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: This study is intended to investigate the effect of systematic early rehabilitation training in patients undergoing primary neuroanastomosis and thumb opposition reconstruction due to complete median nerve lacera
Hand Surg Rehabil. 2025 Jun 6:102203. doi: 10.1016/j.hansur.2025.102203. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Traditional biomechanical theories of wrist motion-such as row, column, and link joint models-offer limited explanations for the complex, multidirectional kinematics observed clinically
Comput Biol Med. 2025 Jun 7;194:110548. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.110548. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSome laparoscopic surgeries require surgeons to repeatedly refer to the patient's 3D imaging data and/or other medical records during the operation. Consequently, accurate visual information
J Safety Res. 2025 Jul;93:66-78. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2025.02.008. Epub 2025 Feb 16.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: The complexity of ramp terminals, coupled with distracted driving (which impairs drivers' abilities and slows reaction time), presents significant challenges to drivers. The safety at interchange
J Safety Res. 2025 Jul;93:44-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2025.02.004. Epub 2025 Feb 14.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Compared to other facilities (e.g., road segments and intersections), ramp segments pose more challenges for motorcycles due to their higher operating speeds (especially for merging and weaving ma
J Safety Res. 2025 Jul;93:413-422. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2025.02.020. Epub 2025 Feb 25.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: The Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a frequent cause of hand symptoms and activity limitations, which is associated with various personal risk factors. However, the association between these ris
BMC Oral Health. 2025 Jun 6;25(1):931. doi: 10.1186/s12903-025-06265-y.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: For ideal occlusion and passive fit of implant-retained prosthetic restorations minimal tolerance of the position of the abutment in the implant after dis- and reassembly is essential. Methods to examine the
Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 6;15(1):20025. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-02536-4.ABSTRACTCollagen is critical to the structure and function of skin tissues, with the collagen I/III ratios influencing fibrillogenesis, fiber organization, and skin mechanics. Abnormal collagen organization, such as in fibrosis or scar
J Neural Eng. 2025 Jun 6. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ade1f9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTObjective: Upper-limb gesture identification is an important problem in the advancement of robotic prostheses. Prevailing research into classifying electromyographic (EMG) muscular data or electroencephalographic
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell. 2025 Jun 6;PP. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3577227. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTImage resampling is a basic technique that is widely employed in daily applications, such as camera photo editing. Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) have made impressive progress in pe
Arch Physiother. 2025 Jun 5;15:131-137. doi: 10.33393/aop.2025.3291. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: To verify the feasibility of the Virtual Eggs Test (VET) and establish the ranges of fragilities of the Virtual Eggs (VEs) for assessing dexterity of stroke subjects and to collect feedb
Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 5;15(1):19855. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-05278-5.ABSTRACTPatients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) frequently develop pseudosyndactyly due to recurrent hand blistering and subsequent scar contracture. Conventional release surgery typically employs allogeneic bio
J Hand Surg Am. 2025 Jun 4:S0363-5023(25)00197-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2025.04.009. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere is no debating the impact of tourniquets on the field of hand surgery. Tourniquets provide considerable utility for surgeons, allowing improved tissue visualization and reduced intr
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2025 Jun 5;PP. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3576999. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHuman hand and head movements are the most pervasive input modalities in extended reality (XR) and are significant for a wide range of applications. However, prior works on hand and head modelli
Nano Lett. 2025 Jun 5. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01180. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIonic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are a class of low-voltage-driven ionic actuators that have drawn much attention in soft robotics. However, conventional IPMC actuators are plagued with practicality because
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2025 May 21;13:1610197. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1610197. eCollection 2025.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Modern wearable electronics demand materials that are simultaneously stretchable, conductive, and environmentally robust. Hydrogels meet some of these requirements but dehydrate o
Nanophotonics. 2025 Feb 14;14(11):1827-1835. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0635. eCollection 2025 Jun.ABSTRACTCharge-trapping defects in crystalline solids play important roles in applications ranging from microelectronics, optical storage, sensing and quantum technologies. On one hand, depleting trapped
Surg Neurol Int. 2025 May 30;16:212. doi: 10.25259/SNI_202_2025. eCollection 2025.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Cranial neuralgias are characterized by sharp lancinating pain that occurs on specific regions served by cranial nerves. Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) and trigeminal neuralgia (TN) are disorders
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5c04696. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWound dressing is expected to provide protection and a regenerative environment for healing. For diabetic chronic wounds, the characteristic persistent oxidative stress and impaired collagen remodeling
J Chem Theory Comput. 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00277. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigate the efficient combination of the canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) and tensor hyper-contraction (THC) approaches. We first present a novel low-cost CPD solver that leverages a precomput
J Hand Ther. 2025 Jun 3:S0894-1130(25)00061-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jht.2025.04.010. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: In peripheral nerve injuries, the vicious cycle of pain and movement restriction negatively affects functional recovery in rehabilitation.AIM: This study aimed to examine the effe
