BACKGROUND/AIM Hand injuries comprise up to one fourth of all injuries and require excellent skills and aggressive physical therapy with still a high potential to cause long term physical and functional disability which affects one's quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate disability and quality of life in patients with different degrees of hand and forearm injuries using the two...

BACKGROUND Hand injuries can result in significant time away from competition for professional basketball players. Time to return to play after hand injuries in elite athletes has not been well described. PURPOSE To report the return to play from metacarpal fractures, phalangeal fractures, and thumb ligament tears in National Basketball Association (NBA) players over a 5-year period. STUDY ...

injuries. Since occupational hand injuries occur as a result of acute exogenous force, most causes of occupational hand injuries are transient risk factors occurring immediately before injury occurs. Triggers can be reasonably defined as preceding causes in causal relationships. When many different causes exist causing the same outcome, the probability that a certain outcome will occur can be r...

Taylor Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 230 x 158 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. This book provides a hands-on resource for the development of essential skills and competencies in clinical neuropsychology. On a very practical level it addresses a question frequently asked by students, trainees, interns, and newly qualified psychologists: what do I need ...

Background: Our objective was to explore outcome and clinical changes in hand function,

The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, an independent statutory body, recently invited the British Orthopaedic Association to advise whether there was conclusive evidence of an occupational cause of any further types of repetitive strain injuries other than those currently recognised as industrial injuries. Two related conditions are currently recognised as "prescribed disorders": PD A4-cram...