Rehabilitation after flexor tendon repair, reconstruction, and tenolysis

Hand Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 257-265

  Vucekovich, Kathy ^a   Gallardo, Gloria ^a   Fiala, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINGER JOINT; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT FUNCTION; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION;

ADHESIONS; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; TENDON INJURIES;

EID: 18844409412     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2004.11.006     Document Type: Review

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