HAND REHABILITATION. A PRACTICAL GUIDE

This second edition of the text on hand therapy protocols is organized by disorder. Each treatment is written in an outline format and explains treatment for non- and post-operative therapy. It includes new coverage of digital amputation, median nerve compression and reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

Wounds; skin grafts and flaps; burns; Dupuytren's disease; upper extremity vessel repair; nerve repair; sensort re-education; desensitization; sensory evaluation; sensory re-education; extensor tendon repair; flexor tendon repair; flexor tendolysis; primary tendon grafts; staged tendon reconstruction; mallet finger; swan-neck deformity; Boutonniere deformity; wrist and hand tendonitis; epicondylitis; shoulder tendinitis - rotator cuff repair; thoracic outlet syndrome; ulnar nerve entrapment; median nerve entrapment; tendon transfers for radial nerve palsy; replantation; preprosthetic management of upper extremity amputation; partial digital amputation - ray/resection; total shoulder arthroplasty - hemiarthroplasty; total elbow arthroplasty; metacarpophalangeal joint arthroplasty; proximal interphalangeal and distal interphalangeal joint arthroplasty; thumb carpometacarpal joint arthroplasty; ulnar collateral ligament injury of the thumb; proximal interphalangeal joint fracture; finger fracture rehabilitation; humerus/shoulder fracture; metcarpal and proxminal interphalangeal joint capsulectomy; internal, external fixation of wrist and distal forearm fractures; carpal instabilities; proximal row carpectomy; wrist arthrodesis; reflex sympathetic dystrophy - chronic pain; social work services; work hardening/vocational evaluation; wrist tendinitis; ulnar head resection; conservative management of arthritis; vasopastic disease; upper extremity tendinitis of the performing artist.