Functional bracing of humeral shaft fractures. A review of clinical studies

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Papasoulis, Efthimios ^a   Drosos, Georgios I ^a   Ververidis, Athanasios N ^a   Verettas, Dionisios Alexandros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conservative treatment; Functional bracing; Functional treatment; Humeral diaphyseal fractures; Humeral shaft fractures

Indexed keywords

BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BONE MALFORMATION; BRACE; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICAL BONE; ELBOW; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL BRACING; HUMAN; HUMERAL DIAPHYSEAL FRACTURE; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS SHAFT FRACTURE; INFERIOR GLENOHUMERAL SUBLUXATION; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT STIFFNESS; LONG OBLIQUE PROXIMAL FRACTURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OINTMENT; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; RESIDUAL DEFORMITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOULDER; SKIN CARE; SKIN INJURY; SPLINTING; SUBLUXATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VALGUS DEFORMITY; VARUS DEFORMITY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FRACTURE FIXATION; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957124239     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.05.004     Document Type: Review

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