Improvements in activities of daily living following functional hand surgery for treatment of lesions to the cervical spinal cord: Self-assessment by patients

Spinal Cord

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 574-580

  Meiners, T ^a   Abel, R ^b   Lindel, K ^a   Mesecke, U ^a  

^a Werner Wicker Klinik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Surgical in upper extremities; Tetraplegia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036847142     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101384     Document Type: Article

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