Clinical implications of cerebral reorganisation after primary digital flexor tendon repair

Journal of Hand Surgery: European Volume

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-448

  Coert, J H ^a,b   Stenekes, M W ^a,b   Paans, A M J ^a,b   Nicolai, J P A ^a,b   De Jong, B M ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral; Flexor; Injury; Relearning; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FLEXOR REFLEX; FLEXOR TENDON; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INSULA; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FINGER INJURIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPLINTS; TENDON INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69049091024     PISSN: 17531934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753193408099827     Document Type: Article

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