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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor

Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.

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Pain and the power of touch

As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.

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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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  • Carnochan, orthopaedics apparatus
  • Portrail of H.J. Burrows, from a photograph presented by the Institute of Orthopaedics.
  • Crutches and orthopaedic boots.
  • Orthopaedic instruments, 19th century.
  • C. B. Keetley, Orthopaedic surgery
  • C. B. Keetley, Orthopaedic surgery
  • Apparatus for correction of orthopaedic deformity, 19th c.
  • Shop of Lennard's Ltd. orthopaedic suppliers and chiropodists: exterior. Photograph by USA Studios.
  • Orthopaedic apparatus for the whole human body: posterior view. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Orthopaedic apparatus for the whole human body: anterior view. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
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