Immobilization for scaphoid fracture: Forearm rotation in long arm thumb-spica versus munster thumb-spica casts

Orthopedics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 612-614

  Lawton, Jeffrey N ^a   Nicholls, Mathew A ^b   Charoglu, Constantine P ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Kentucky Orthopaedic and Hand Surgeons   (United States)

^c Southern Bone and Joint Specialist PA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; GONIOMETRY; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTER CAST; RANGE OF MOTION; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 34548287394     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20070801-07     Document Type: Article

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