Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity
CRITICAL POINTS ▪ The purpose of this chapter is to present the surface anatomy of the upper extremity that is most relevant and useful to the clinician. ▪ The upper…
The Use of Biofeedback in Hand Rehabilitation
Many professional groups use biofeedback for neuromotor rehabilitation, autonomic regulation, psychotherapeutic treatment, pain management, and treatment of vascular problems. In recent years, insurance reimbursement for biofeedback as a separate billing…
Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Wrist
CRITICAL POINTS Anatomy ▪ Bones: Two rows ▪ Ligaments: Dorsal, palmar, intercarpal ▪ Membranes: Scapholunate and triquetrolunate ▪ Pedicles: Radioscapholunate Normal Kinetics ▪ Proximal row moves as a unit ▪…
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…
