THE ASSESSMENT OF HAND FUNCTION AFTER PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES
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The Assessment of Hand Function after Peripheral Nerve Injuries
The diagnosis, follow-up and final assessment of a peripheral nerve injury includes a detailed examination of the range of movement of individual joints, the power of individual muscles and the recovery of the various modalities of sensibility. Objective methods of examination and recording of results of such observations have been described by Seddon (1949). A numerical assessment of motor and...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.43b3.481