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West Virginia University Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, 1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506.
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Strength training has proved to be an effective way to prevent injuries, but the evidence of the impact of strength training on finger injuries is lacking. A fingerboard is a sport-specific tool used ...
A web-based survey was used to collect information on self-perceived pain or injury in fingers (SPIIF) and regular fingerboard training (RFT). The survey was administered to the Finnish climbing commu...
No significant correlations between SPIIF and RFT were found when analyzing all the participants (n=434) together. In climbers with 6 y or more in the sport, SPIIF was not common and RFT was negativel...
We suggest that doing RFT may prevent SPIIF in climbers with a long background in the sport as fingerboard training can help build stronger fingers and thereby stronger tendons and ligaments. Climbers...
A 45 year old male reported to the ER after having removed a splinter from his right index finger. He felt a piece of wood still remained. Using the POCUS waterbath-technique we were able to easily lo...
Although the use of...
Workers in eight centres wore a ring dosimeter for all tasks involving...
The median normalised ring dose for...
When appropriate shielding and radiation protection practices are employed, the extremity dose due to...
Trigger finger is a common hand disorder in which swelling of the affected flexor-tendon results in triggering, locking or pain at the A1-pulley and impaired function of the finger. In this clinical l...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis of underlying finger pathology can be intimidating due to the presence of unique anatomy. The small size of the fingers and the unique orientation of the thu...
Although aesthetic reconstruction of an amputated distal finger can be achieved through partial toe transfer, this approach often damages the weight-bearing region of the toe from which the flap is ha...
Thirty-one amputated fingertips in 30 patients aged 18 to 68 years were treated using this operative technique. Operations were performed between January 2010 and December 2020. All patients were miss...
In most patients, the transplanted flap remained healthy and the distal finger was aesthetically restored. Two patients aged over 60 years who were smokers developed necrosis of the transplanted parti...
Our technique, which combines elevation of a distally-based finger flap and transplantation of a partial toe flap, was able to minimize the skin defect area in the great toe. This new distal finger re...
Mixed reality (MR) is helpful in hand training for patients with stroke, allowing them to fully submerge in a virtual space while interacting with real objects. The recognition of individual finger mo...
Twenty-one participants with hemiplegic stroke (10 with left hemiplegia and 11 with right hemiplegia; nine female patients; 56.7 ± 14.2 years of age; and onset of stroke 32.7 ± 34.8 months) participat...
Except for the FMA-proximal score (p = 0.617) and TOT (p = 0.005), other FMA scores, BBT score, Repeat-FE, WMFT score, and SIS stroke recovery improved significantly (p < 0.001) during MR-board 2 trai...
MR-board 2 self-training, which includes natural interactions between humans and computers using a tangible user interface and real-time tracking of the fingers, improved upper limb function across im...
This study was registered with the Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS: KCT0004167)....
Surface skin deformation of the finger pad during partial slippage at finger-object interfaces elicits firing of the tactile sensory afferents. A torque around the contact normal is often present duri...
Finger and thumb injuries are common in established and trend sports. Imaging plays an important role in acute trauma care, further therapy planning, and ultimately for a rapid return to play. Sound k...
The differential diagnosis of a trigger finger presents a clinical challenge. This case depicts a 32-year-old male patient who presented with persistent snapping of the right index finger at the metac...