Rehabilitation of flexor and extensor tendon injuries in the hand: Current updates

Injury

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-402

  Howell, Julianne W ^a   Peck, Fiona ^b  

^a Samaritan Orthopaedics Luis Vela   (United States)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current trends; Early motion; Extensor tendon injury; Flexor tendon injury; Immediate controlled active motion (ICAM); Rehabilitation; Relative motion; Safe splint position; Splint controlled motion

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ARTICLE; EXTENSOR TENDON; EXTENSOR TENDON INJURY; FLEXOR TENDON; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; FORCE; HAND INJURY; HEALING; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT MOBILITY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LACERATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATIENT COMFORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; RUPTURE; SPLINT; SURGEON; TENDON; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; DECISION MAKING; FINGER INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUTURING METHOD; TENDON INJURIES; TISSUE ADHESION; UTILIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

DECISION MAKING; FINGER INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPLINTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENDON INJURIES; TISSUE ADHESIONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84879846132     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2013.01.022     Document Type: Article

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