A randomized trial of training the non-dominant upper extremity to enhance laparoscopic performance

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Nieboer, Theodoor E ^a,b   Sari, Vicdan ^c   Kluivers, Kirsten B ^a   Weinans, Martin J N ^b   Vierhout, Mark E ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GELDERSE VALLEI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intermanual transfer; Laparoscopy; Training; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HAND GRIP; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPY; NON DOMINANT ARM TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UPPER EXTREMITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84863965100     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2011.614256     Document Type: Article

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