[PasorBob]

I’ve also heard it claimed that it was painted during the Renaissance, but I don’t believe that at that time people were aware that the nails went through the wrist rather than the palms of the hand. As I say, I’m no expert; feel free to correct me.

I am facinated by the Shroud, but I don't know much about it. In the TV show last night, they had a doctor who said the nails went through the palms, however, not the wrists

[ArmyTeach]

Very iteresting. My understanding is that the bones of the hand are to slender and fragile to support the weight of a man hanging. The result would have been that the hand would actually rip away from the nails holding it.

[Swordmaker]

I am facinated by the Shroud, but I don't know much about it. In the TV show last night, they had a doctor who said the nails went through the palms, however, not the wrists

Dr. Zuniga did indeed state that as well as the fact that his research on both living and dead subjects shows that the palmar placement of a nail would support the weight of the average human body. What he found is that the entrance wound would be in the palm, low down, by the ball of the thumb. The exit wound, however, with the nail following a natural pathway through the bones of the wrist, exits exactly on the back of the wrist where it is shown on the Shroud.

Contrary to what the program stated, it was not Dr. Zuniga who discovered that the nail would touch the Median Nerve and cause the folding of the thumbs into the palm. That was discovered by other forensic medical researchers much earlier in the 20th Century.