Splinting the Hand of a Child
Management of the child who has sustained an injury or undergone surgery to the upper extremity poses a unique challenge to the surgeon-therapist-patient team. Most upper extremity surgery and reconstruction…
Mechanics of Tendon Transfers
The goal of tendon transfer operations is to restore balance to a hand after one or more of its muscles have been paralyzed or destroyed. In so doing, the surgeon…
Splinting the Hand with a Peripheral-Nerve Injury
Splinting the hand with a peripheral-nerve injury is both easy and difficult. The ease of splinting results from the readily recognizable and often identical deformities. Therefore, unlike many other hand…
Sensibility Assessment for Nerve Lesions-In-Continuity and Nerve Lacerations
The challenges inherent in sensibility assessment of the upper extremity have increased in recent years. In the past, it seemed the majority of patients referred for evaluation had diagnoses of…
Tendon Transfers: An Overview
The goal of a tendon transfer is to restore to the extremity a needed motor function that has been lost secondary to paralysis from nerve injury or disease or by…
Appendix: The American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists’ Consensus Rehabilitation Guidelines for Arthroscopic Anterior Capsulolabral Repair of the Shoulder
Phase I (POW 1 to ∼ POW 6) Goals: • Maximally protect the surgical repair (capsule, ligaments, labrum, sutures) • Achieve staged ROM goals. DO NOT exceed them. • Patient…
Documentation: Essential Elements of an Upper Extremity Assessment Battery
* The author receives no compensation in any form from products discussed in this chapter. “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express…
Sensibility Testing with the Semmes-Weinstein Monofilaments
* I gratefully acknowledge Bill Buford, Bioengineer formerly at the Paul W. Brand Research Laboratory, Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana, for his help in reviewing the monofilament…
Atlas on Regional Anatomy of the Neck, Axilla, and Upper Extremity
* Reproduced from Healey JE Jr, Hodge J: Surgical anatomy, ed 2, Philadelphia, 1990, BC Decker. The anatomic text and illustrations in this chapter have been carefully chosen to support…
Desensitization of the traumatized hand
The patient with hypersensitivity occurring after hand trauma presents the physician and the therapist with a unique challenge, both in evaluation and in treatment of the problem. The lack of…
