Importance of early passive mobilization following double free gracilis muscle transfer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2037-2045

  Doi, Kazuteru ^a   Hattori, Yasunori ^a   Yamazaki, Hiroshi ^a   Wahegaonkar, Abhijeet L ^a   Addosooki, Ahmad ^a   Watanabe, Masao ^a  

^a Ogori Daiichi General Hospital   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE FREE GRACILIS MUSCLE TRANSFER; ELBOW; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; TENDON; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT THERAPY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY AMBULATION; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION THERAPY, CONTINUOUS PASSIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48049098574     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181706f3c     Document Type: Article

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