Effectiveness of a telerehabilitation tablet app in combination with face-to-face physiotherapy for people with wrist, hand or finger injuries: A pragmatic multicentre clinical trial.

Objective: To evaluate whether, in patients with trauma and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers, an exercise program performed on a touchscreen tablet-based app reduces the consumption of face-to-face resources and improves clinical recovery, compared to a conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper.

Design: Pragmatic, multicentre, parallel, two-group, controlled clinical trial with blinded assessor.

Participants And Setting: Eighty-one patients with traumatic bone and/or soft tissue injuries of the hand, wrist and/or fingers recruited in four hospitals of the Andalusian Public Health System.

Effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation Evidence-Based Tablet App for Rehabilitation in Traumatic Bone and Soft Tissue Injuries of the Hand, Wrist, and Fingers.

Objective: To assess whether feedback-guided exercises performed on a tablet touchscreen improve clinical recovery and reduce health care usage more than the conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper in patients with bone and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand, and/or fingers treated by public health services.

Design: A multicenter assessor-blinded, parallel, 2-group controlled trial.

Setting: Trauma and rehabilitation services of 4 hospitals.

The effects of a mobile app-delivered intervention in people with symptomatic hand osteoarthritis: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

Background: Exercise therapy, self-management and education are recommended interventions for hand osteoarthritis (OA), but new delivery systems are needed to solve lack of adherence.

Aim: To determine the effects on hand function and pain related measures of a mobile app-delivered intervention, compared with usual care, in patients with symptomatic hand OA.

Design: A pragmatic, multicenter, two-group parallel randomized controlled trial.

An Exercise and Educational and Self-management Program Delivered With a Smartphone App (CareHand) in Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Hands: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a prevalent autoimmune disease that usually involves problems of the hand or wrist. Current evidence recommends a multimodal therapy including exercise, self-management, and educational strategies. To date, the efficacy of this approach, as delivered using a smartphone app, has been scarcely investigated.

Feedback-guided exercises performed on a tablet touchscreen improve return to work, function, strength and healthcare usage more than an exercise program prescribed on paper for people with wrist, hand or finger injuries: a randomised trial.

Question: In people with bone and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers, do feedback-guided exercises performed on a tablet touchscreen hasten return to work, reduce healthcare usage and improve clinical recovery more than a home exercise program prescribed on paper?

Design: Randomised, parallel-group trial with concealed allocation, assessor blinding and intention-to-treat analysis.

Participants: Seventy-four workers with limited functional ability due to bone and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers.

Intervention: Participants in the experimental and control groups received the same in-patient physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

A mobile app using therapeutic exercise and education for self-management in patients with hand rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized controlled trial protocol.

Background: Therapeutic exercise is a safe and cost-effective approach to alleviate hand rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-related symptoms. This study aims to investigate the differences in self-management between a smartphone app (CareHand), using hand exercises and educational advices, compared with a standard approach, on hand overall function, pain intensity, stiffness, and grip and pinch strength in patients with hand RA.

Methods: The project is a prospective, longitudinal, superiority, randomized controlled trial.

Exercises using a touchscreen tablet application improved functional ability more than an exercise program prescribed on paper in people after surgical carpal tunnel release: a randomised trial.

Question: In people who have undergone surgical carpal tunnel release, do sensorimotor-based exercises performed on the touchscreen of a tablet device improve outcomes more than a conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper?

Design: Randomised, parallel-group trial with concealed allocation, assessor blinding, and intention-to-treat analysis.

Participants: Fifty participants within 10 days of surgical carpal tunnel release.

Intervention: Each participant was prescribed a 4-week home exercise program.