Do hand outcome measures reflect cultural influences?

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the activities listed in DASH, MHQ, QuickDASH with the activities listed in Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) in a Turkish patient population with hand injury.

Methods: COPM questionnaire was administered to 163 participants (61 male and 102 female; mean age 40.72 ± 13.

Motor nerve lengths of twenty-seven muscles in upper extremity.

The purpose of this study is to determine the lengths of motor nerves in the upper extremity. Motor nerves of 27 muscles in 10 cadavers (16 extremities) were dissected from their roots at the level of intervertebral foramen to the entry point of the nerves to the corresponding muscles. Distance between acromion and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus was also measured in all cadavers.