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.

Effect of a distal weight-bearing implant on visual analog scale scores in 23 transfemoral amputees.

The objective of this interrupted time series clinical trial was to evaluate the effect of a distal weight-bearing implant on well-being in patients with transfemoral amputations using the visual analog scale (VAS). A total of 29 patients from five hospitals with previous transfemoral amputations were surgically implanted with an osseoanchored implant with a distal spacer that allows a direct load on the residuum over the distal surface of the socket. Patients were followed for a 14-month period and assessed presurgically and postsurgically using the VAS.

[Infiltration of the psoas muscles with botulinum toxin guided by computerised axial tomography: a series of cases].

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of infiltrating the psoas muscle with botulinum toxin guided by computerised tomography (CT) in order to reduce dynamic contracture in bending the hip.

Patients And Methods: The study involves a series of five children diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy and bilateral involvement. All the children were able to walk and they presented an attitude on bending the hips and knees consisting in the typical 'crouch gait' together with a dynamic contracture of the hips and knees.