The phrase "affects hand" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe an impact on the hand, but without additional context, it is ambiguous and unclear.
Example: "The injury affects hand mobility, making it difficult to grip objects."
Alternatives: "impacts the hand" or "influences hand function".
Because restricted AROM is a consequence of a variety of diseases and conditions, it is important to know how restricted AROM at multiple upper extremity segments affects hand function.
Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis (OA) is a common condition that affects hand strength and function, and causes disability in activities of daily living.
It is also interesting to note that hand motor cortex is located in between face and leg motor areas, and might therefore capture the overlap of activations produced by all three action word categories. 1 It is therefore still possible that action-relatedness affects hand, face and leg motor areas, but was only detected in the hand area due to this overlap.
Severe hyperhidrosis commonly affects hands, face, axillae, and feet, causing significant medical and psychosocial consequences.
Grip strength will be assessed by applying pressure to the dynamometer with the non-affected, followed by the affected, hand.
However, we found a significantly higher stage per hand in patients with bilateral affection compared to patients with only one affected hand, so far without an explanation.
This step eliminated situations whereby an extremely affected hand might have otherwise been paired with a mildly affected hand.
As Demosthenes, Gordon Joseph Weiss is eloquently mute, particularly in an affecting hand ballet, in stunning visual counterpoint to a stirring chorus.
Treatment may also include resting the affected hand at night in a splint, or continuous splinting to keep the wrist and forearm in a direct line.
Conclusions: A brief educational campaign and installation of dispensers containing a rapidly acting hand hygiene product near hospital rooms did not affect hand hygiene compliance.
By understanding how construct validity may affect hand hygiene research design, there is great potential to improve the validity of future hand hygiene research findings.
