Night-time splinting after fasciectomy or dermo-fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A pragmatic, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jerosch Herold, Christina ^a   Shepstone, Lee ^a   Chojnowski, Adrian J ^b   Larson, Debbie ^b   Barrett, Elisabeth ^a   Vaughan, Susan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER AND HAND; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; FASCIECTOMY; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER EXTENSION; FOLLOW UP; HAND THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NIGHT TIME SPLINTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SELF REPORT; SKIN EXCISION; SPLINTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FASCIA; HAND; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLINT; STANDARD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPLINTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959239056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-136     Document Type: Article

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