The usage of functional wrist orthoses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 286-295

  de Boer, Ingeborg G ^a   Peeters, André ^b   Ronday, H Karel ^c   Mertens, Bart J A ^a   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^a   Vliet Vlieland, Theodora P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compliance; Cross sectional study; Rheumatoid arthritis; Wrist orthoses

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; ORTHOSIS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; WRIST ORTHOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WRIST;

EID: 38649083736     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701257031     Document Type: Article

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