What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

The pronator quadratus is a square-shaped muscle located on the distal forearm. It is responsible for pronation, i.e., it helps in rotating the forearm and turning the hand downwards ...

[5] During the arm stabilisation test, the presence of a pronator drift, a mild elbow flexion and passive abduction of the little finger and sometimes adjacent fingers (Souques' sign) are ...

This prospective controlled study indicates that the bedside observation of a "drift without pronation" is a useful and reliable clinical sign to discriminate between functional and organic upper ...

Chronic presentations are more likely in females, those with a running history less than 5 years, increased body mass index, larger calf girth, increased hip rotation, standing foot pronation and a ...

Naturally there are things we would refrain from doing knowing what we know.” Below, Vincent and other foot and ankle health ...

The issue has also sparked discussion of a phenomenon known as Kessler syndrome. Kessler syndrome is a hypothetical scenario proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, predicting what ...

The event Reddy referred to is a hypothetical phenomenon called Kessler Syndrome. Named for American astrophysicist Donald Kessler and based on his 1978 academic paper, Kessler Syndrome — as the ...

The taming effect on monkeys is fairly characteristic. After certain doses the animals lose their hostility and fear and become friendly and tame. 4–6 The drug also depresses imprinting in ducks ...

All of this debris floating around in space could lead to a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome. Here's what to know about space junk, why it's a problem and what's being done about it.