Reconstruction of thumb after traumatic or congenital loss in 17 cases is reported. Cases were divided into three groups according to the level of thumb loss. There were two cases in distal zone, seven in middle and eight in proximal zone. Thirteen cases were traumatic in origin and four had congenital loss. Different reconstruction procedures were used at each level. Osteoplastic reconstructio...

CONCLUSION: Thumb injuries from fireworks result from high-energy avulsion, hyperextension, and hyperabduction, frequently injuring the thumb, destabilizing the CMC joint, and seriously damaging the first webspace. The first webspace requires particular consideration as deep injury may result in adduction contracture and require secondary reconstruction with tissue outside the zone of injury if...

PURPOSE Previously, we studied normative and reliability data of palmar thumb abduction measurements (conventional goniometry, the Pollexograph thumb, the Pollexograph metacarpal, the Inter Metacarpal Distance, the American Society of Hand Therapists method, and the American Medical Association method) in healthy adults. Because many interventions aiming to improve palmar abduction are performe...

Numbness within the thumb involving palmar aspect with three and a half digits as division is common presentation of peripheral nerve injury. However, it rarely observed to be presented numbness at ulnar-palmar side thumb, where longitudinal melanonychia on nail plate acts division. We present case that reveals concurrence suffered from injury during course occupational therapy.

Robots M. A. El-Dosuky 1, M. Z. Rashad 1, T. T. Hamza 1, and A.H. EL-Bassiouny 2 1 Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Computers and Information sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt Abstract For a mobile robot to be truly autonomous, it must solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. We dev...

Traumatic thumb amputation represents an extremely disabling entity, thus rendering its reconstruction a procedure of paramount importance. A case of a patient, who sustained a traumatic amputation of his left index finger at the metacarpophalangeal joint and of his left thumb in the middle of the proximal phalanx 4 months ago and was initially treated elsewhere, is described. For the thumb rec...

Forecasters often develop rules of thumb for adjusting model guidance. Ideally, before use, these rules of thumb should be validated through a careful comparison of model forecasts and observations over a large sample. Practically, such evaluation studies are difficult to perform because forecast models are continually being changed, and a hypothesized rule of thumb may only be applicable to a ...

In this paper the idea that some households always spend the totality of their current income the rule of thumb behavior is applied to a small open economy framework. A model of current account with rule of thumb individuals and habit formation is constructed and estimated for five different countries. Two parameters of the model are of particular interest: the share of domestic income that acc...

BACKGROUND Establishment of proper occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) is one of the important tasks for successful prosthodontic therapy. An ideal method for determining OVD in terms of cost, time, and instrument requirements has been sought in prosthodontics by various investigators. However, no such single method has been formulated. In the current anthropometric study, the relationship of the...

INTRODUCTION Double dislocation of thumb metacarpal (MC) is a rare injury which may be secondarily complicated by growth plate injury in children. The management of floating 1st MC is also controversial since the treatment ranges from simple reduction to complex reconstruction surgeries. It is also important to understand the long-term results of different management strategies (close reduction...