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…
CRITICAL POINTS Anatomy ▪ Bones: Two rows ▪ Ligaments: Dorsal, palmar, intercarpal ▪ Membranes: Scapholunate and triquetrolunate ▪ Pedicles: Radioscapholunate Normal Kinetics ▪ Proximal row moves as a unit ▪…
CRITICAL POINTS ▪ Shoulder motion is a result of the complex interactions of the individual joints and muscles of the shoulder girdle. ▪ Scapulothoracic motion significantly affects measurements of glenohumeral…
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…
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 is both easy and difficult. The ease of splinting results from the readily recognizable and often identical deformities. Therefore, unlike many other hand…
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…
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…
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…
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