Early Controlled Passive Motion Improves Early Fracture Alignment and Structural Properties in a Closed Extra-Articular Metacarpal Fracture in a Rabbit Model

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 200-208

  Feehan, Lynne M ^a   Tang, Cecilia S ^a   Oxland, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early controlled motion; extra articular; fracture; hand; metacarpal; rabbit; structural properties

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRACE; CALLUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE REDUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT STIFFNESS; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RABBIT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BONY CALLUS; BRACES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; IMMOBILIZATION; METACARPAL BONES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33846590572     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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