A portable device for finger tendon rehabilitation that provides an isotonic training force and records exercise behaviour after finger tendon surgery

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 396-399

  Dobbe, J G G ^a   Van Trommel, N E ^a   De Freitas Baptista, J E ^a   Ritt, M J P F ^a   Steenbeek, A ^a   Molenaar, H A J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compliance; Data logging; Exercise; Flexor tendon; Kleinert splint; Recording; Rehabilitation; Tendon surgery

Indexed keywords

ORTHOTICS; SURGERY; TENDONS;

FINGER TENDON SURGERY; KLEINERT SPLINT;

HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FINGER; FLEXOR TENDON; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ISOTONIC EXERCISE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENDON LESION; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032990465     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02513318     Document Type: Article

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