Peripheral median nerve block impairs precision pinch movement

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1941-1948

  Li, Zong Ming ^a   Nimbarte, Ashish D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger; Hand; Median nerve block; Motion; Thumb

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MEDIAN NERVE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; THUMB; WRIST;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BUPIVACAINE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOVEMENT; NERVE BLOCK; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 33747357294     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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