OBJECTIVE To validate the psychometric properties of the questionnaire on hand function assessment in leprosy. METHODS Study conducted with a convenience sample of 101 consecutive patients in Brasília (Central-Western Brazil), from June 2008 to July 2009. The individuals were adults affected by leprosy, with impairment of the ulnar, median and radial nerves. Interobservers and intraobserver r...

Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of disability among people between 18 and 64 years of age. Patients with musculoskeletal injuries of the upper extremities are usually evaluated and treated by an individual physician and therapist. However, for patients who have problems, especially after being treated by a hand surgeon and a certified hand therapist, there are few other manageme...

Background Proximal interphalangeal (PIP) fracture dislocations remain a complex injury pattern to treat. There are several treatment methods available aimed to restore stability, preserve range of motion, and reconstitute the articular surface. This study looked at the mid-term clinical and radiographic results of open reduction internal fixation through a shotgun approach of comminuted PIP fr...

objectives: measuring outcomes of intervention is one of the most important components of occupational therapy process. the disabilities of arm, shoulder and hand (dash) questionnaire is a valid and reliable instrument to measure outcomes of the occupational therapy services in the area of hand therapy. the study aims to measure outcomes from interventions of hand therapy in patients with the c...

COURSE CONTENT: Groups, Examples of groups, Some elementary properties of groups, Subgroups, Cyclic groups, Cosets and Langrange’s theorem, Normal subgroups and Quotient groups, Homomorphisms, The Isomorphism Theorems, Group Actions, orbits and stabilizers, Conjugacy, Class equation of a finite group, Cauchy’s Theorem, The structure of p-groups, The Sylow’s theorems, Some applications of Sylow’...

OBJECTIVE To translate, to perform a cultural adaptation of and to test the reproducibility of the Cochin Hand Functional Scale questionnaire for Brazil. METHODS First, the Cochin Hand Functional Scale questionnaire was translated into Portuguese and was then back-translated into French. These translations were reviewed by a committee to establish a Brazilian version of the questionnaire to b...

Abstract Background The treatment of defects on the volar surface finger has been scarcely reported, and its utility for digital resurfacing remains unclear. This study compared outcomes free medial plantar artery flap (MPAF) dorsal digital–metacarpal (DDMF) in reconstruction. Methods retrospective cohort included 24 patients with soft-tissue from March 2014 to 2017. were divided into two group...

Exhibitionism has historically been viewed as more of a nuisance than a serious criminal justice matter. Research has demonstrated that the number of exhibitionists who are detected re-offending is a significant under-representation of the number who actually re-offend. The objective of this study was to extend a previous study conducted on exhibitionists, while attempting to solve the limitati...