A history of splinting: To understand the present, view the past

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-132

  Fess, Elaine Ewing ^a  

^a Hand Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INFECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; POLIOMYELITIS; POLITICS; PUBLICATION; SPLINTING; TECHNOLOGY; WAR; HISTORY; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; SPLINT;

HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPLINTS;

EID: 0035987763     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/hanthe.2002.v15.0150091     Document Type: Article

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