title: [Proposal for a global medico-legal functional evaluation of disabilities of the hand].
abstract: The present evaluations of hand invalidity are based on parameters that can give correct assessment for amputations or for single stiffness, but these parameters are not able to evaluate the majority of lesions. A nerve lesion does not repair at 100% or at 0%; all degrees are possible. The same is true for vascular, tendon and muscular lesions. We studied a new global evaluation on a large number of patients and we compared it with the tables in use today. The assessed parameters are: the active and passive movement, ability of the hand, strength, duration of the effort or of the fatigue, trophism, sensibility, pain, aesthetics.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Ortopedica Del l'Universita di Brescia, Spedali Civili, Italie.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brunelli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guizzi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Battiston
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004954:Esthetics; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010146:Pain; D012677:Sensation; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
vernacular_title: Proposition d'une évaluation fonctionnelle globale médico-légale de l'invalidité de la main.