Assessment of hand function.
Hand assessment involves analysis of developing deformities and the pathological changes causing them, and a study of how these changes affect the various components of hand function both individually and combined into activities required by the patient. A detailed recording of this information helps in the planning of treatment, and is essential for reliable evaluation of the effects of treatment.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008662:Metacarpophalangeal Joint / Q000473:pathology; D013710:Tendons / Q000473:pathology; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000473:pathology