Basic manual dexterity (BMD) should not be taken as an exclusion criteria for admission to the CLOPD. BMD greatly improves during the CLOPD training. Experience of dental mechanics prior to the CLOPD ...

A U.K. doctor who trains surgeons is voicing concern over the lack of manual dexterity among medical students these days. "It seems we can no longer rely on people having developed these ways of using ...

Manual dexterity is a vital motor skill associated with the normal development of the neural and motor systems and demonstrates their coordination. Children who show deficits in this skill require ...

Whether you're reaching for a mug, a pencil or someone's hand, you don't need to consciously instruct each of your fingers on ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Among the many harmful effects of aging, a decline in hand dexterity can lead to difficulties in the performance of daily activities, such as writing, cooking, gardening, craftwork, and ...

A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man (International Publishers 1950), identified the evolution of ...

Performance on a manual dexterity test can act as an objective behavior marker that can aid in detecting the prodromal stage of patients with Parkinson disease. Performance on a manual dexterity test ...

Men whacked punching bags for a new study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists and ...

Archaeologists have long linked ancient tool use to the beginning of human history. Homo habilis, the theory goes, was the "handy man" who used tools and served as the intermediary species between the ...