Changing perspectives in surgical hand rehabilitation in quadriplegic patients.
Every motivated quadriplegic patient with resources for strong wrist extension, and lacking irreversible pathological features, is a candidate for reconstruction of at least a basic strong pinch. This basic pinch is better than that obtained with a prosthesis. We feel that this possibility exists in no less than 75 percent of our quadriplegic patients.
D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D013709:Tendon Transfer; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000601:surgery