Tendon and nerve excursion in the carpal tunnel in healthy and CTD wrists

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 930-936

  Lopes, Melanie M ^b   Lawson, Wendy ^c   Scott, Ted ^c   Keir, Peter J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carpal tunnel; Cumulative trauma disorders; Excursion; Median nerve; Tendon; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARPAL TUNNEL; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; EXCURSION; FINGER MOTION; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MEAN AGES; MEDIAN NERVES; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; TENDON EXCURSIONS; THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES; TIME INTEGRALS; UPPER EXTREMITY; WAVE FORMS; WRIST MOTIONS;

ERGONOMICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

TENDONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS TENDON; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; THICKNESS; WRIST;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; WRIST;

EID: 79959517642     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: 18791271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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