Fifteen macaques, Macaca fascicularis, pinched a lever in various wrist positions at a self-regulated pace (8 h/d, 5 d/wk, 18 20 wk).
Our study shows that despite the increasing use of wrist arthroscopy in the treatment of various wrist disorders the efficacy of arthroscopically performed interventions has only been studied in 4 quasi-randomized studies.
Despite the increasing use of wrist arthroscopy in the treatment of various wrist disorders the efficacy of arthroscopically performed wrist interventions has been studied in only 4 randomized studies compared to 50 randomized studies of significantly higher quality assessing interventions performed through shoulder arthroscopy.
Now everyone is looking at the Pebble and the various other wrist devices and seeing dollar signs.
We finally looked into a group of various hand and wrist conditions and demonstrated that the ratio correlates with DASH in this group as well.
However, it is unknown if it correlates directly with the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) Outcome Measure in healthy and injured subjects with various hand and wrist conditions.
We chose a group with healthy volunteers, a homogenous group of patients with injuries (patients shortly after treatment of a distal radius fracture with a plaster) and a non-homogeneous group with various hand and wrist conditions to gain as much information as possible about the correlation between grip strength, grip strength ratio and DASH score.
The present study, therefore proposed to measure various radial and wrist radiological parameters following distal radial fractures in pre-reduction, post-reduction and the serial follow-up films with a view to quantify accurately the displacement of the fracture and the associated carpal malalignment.
Furthermore, as grip strength ratio is shown to correlate well with the outcome of the DASH score in all 3 groups (patients and healthy volunteers), including the group with various hand and wrist conditions, one might expect this correlation to be present in more groups with more homogeneous conditions, and therefore be useful for clinical practice in patients with only one extremity involved.
There seems to be general agreement by the various authors that wrist ROM was limited by increased antagonist muscle tension [ 13, 14, 16, 17] or ligament/muscle/tendon shortening [ 15] although there is no consensus on whether this represents an increase in active or passive tension.
Our designed classifier is used to decode various movements concerning the wrist (extension and flexion) and finger (opening and closing of a fist).
