BACKGROUND Whiplash-Associated Disorders (WAD) are common following a motor vehicle accident. The Functional Impairment Test - Hand, and Neck/Shoulder/Arm (FIT-HaNSA) assesses upper extremity physical performance. It has been validated in patients with shoulder pathology but not in those with WAD. OBJECTIVES Establish the Intra and inter-rater reliability and the known-group and construct val...

BACKGROUND To validate the Persian version of the simple shoulder test in patients with shoulder joint problems. METHODS Following Beaton`s guideline, translation and back translation was conducted. We reached to a consensus on the Persian version of SST. To test the face validity in a pilot study, the Persian SST was administered to 20 individuals with shoulder joint conditions. We enrolled ...

Approximately 30% of all upper extremity fractures are elbow which may result stiffness. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy onaBotulinum Toxin type A injection prevent post-traumatic pain and elbow-stiffness. All patients were included who presented a single surgeon with supracondylar/ intraarticular distal humerus fractures, proximal ulna radius fractures. The was developed in random...

Although the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire was designed, and has been validated, as a measure of disability in patients with disorders of the upper limb, the influence of those of the lower limb on disability as measured by the DASH score has not been assessed. The aim of this study was to investigate whether it exclusively measures disability associated with i...

Lateral epicondylitis is a commonly made diagnosis for general practitioners and orthopedic surgeons. Corticosteroid injection is a mainstay of early treatment. However, conflicting evidence exists to support the use of steroid injection, and no evidence in the literature supports an injection technique. Nineteen patients diagnosed with acute lateral epicondylitis were evaluated to compare the ...

The patient was a 47-year-old man who worked as a sales representative. He presented with a history of falling down stairs two years previously, at which time he sustained trauma to the right shoulder. Since then, he had experienced pain and functional impairment, which he described as being unable to perform intimate hygiene or grab a wallet from his back trouser pocket and difficulty in using...

BACKGROUND The disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand (DASH) questionnaire is a self-administered region-specific outcome instrument developed as a measure of self-rated upper-extremity disability and symptoms. The DASH consists mainly of a 30-item disability/symptom scale, scored 0 (no disability) to 100. The main purpose of this study was to assess the longitudinal construct validity of t...

Background and purpose - During the last decades, treatment of distal radius fractures (DRFs) has changed, with surgical intervention being more common and with new techniques. We investigated whether this change has influenced the subjective outcome. Here we report, year by year, the 1-year score after a DRF over a 10-year-period, using a patient-reported outcome measure. Patients and methods ...

The patient was a 47-year-old man who worked as a sales representative. He presented with a history of falling down stairs two years previously, at which time he sustained trauma to the right shoulder. Since then, he had experienced pain and functional impairment, which he described as being unable to perform intimate hygiene or grab a wallet from his back trouser pocket and difficulty in using...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship of hand grip strength on upper extremity functionality, activities daily living, and physical activity level in female patients with lymphedema who have undergone breast cancer surgery. A total 15 a diagnosis associated treatment were included study. The presence severity determined by circumference measurement. dynamometer was used evaluate stre...