The impact of shoulder pathology on individuals with distal radius fracture.

Background: Shoulder pathology can occur concurrently with a distal radius fracture (DRF) but few studies have examined this population.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to expand the understanding of the impact of shoulder pathology on individuals with DRF.

Study Design: Mixed Methods Design.

A follow up survey on the impact of COVID-19 on hand therapy practice.

Background: The coronavirus-19 pandemic continues to influence on the hand therapy community. It is important to understand how therapists are currently affected and how things have changed since the onset of the pandemic.

Purpose: Follow-up on a previous survey and investigate the current status of hand therapy practice 10 months into the pandemic.

The impact of COVID-19 on hand therapy practice.

Background: Hand therapists and health care providers across the spectrum have been profoundly impacted by COVID-19. Greater insight and information regarding how practitioners have been affected by this unparalleled pandemic is important.

Purpose: Survey research was performed to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hand therapy practice.

Edema assessment and management practice patterns among hand therapists: Survey research.

Study Design: Survey research.

Introduction: Recently, the lymphatic system's role in edema management has been reported; however, it is unclear how this evidence has translated into hand therapy practice.

Purpose Of The Study: Survey research was performed to explore edema education and management.

Orthotic considerations for dense connective tissue and articular cartilage--the need for optimal movement and stress.

Orthotic intervention is an essential component of hand rehabilitation, addressing biological factors that affect activity and participation. Functional, pain-free joint mobility requires skeletal stability, healthy articular cartilage, and appropriate extensibility of periarticular dense connective tissues (DCTs). This article addresses basic science underlying clinical reasoning when considering orthoses to maintain or restore structural integrity, mobility and function of DCT structures, and articular cartilage.

Graded motor imagery.

New information regarding cortical changes in patients with chronic pain has prompted a reevaluation of the typical "bottom up" treatment for pain, which focuses on peripheral nociceptive stimuli. More recently, increasing considerations for chronic pain are focused from the "top down" cortical central processing perspective. Graded motor imagery (GMI) is one treatment technique from the "top down" paradigm designed to treat chronic pain.

Changes in edema, pain, or range of motion following manual edema mobilization: a single-case design study.

The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of manual edema mobilization (MEM) on decreasing edema and pain, and increasing range of motion (ROM) using a single-subject, A-B design study. A baseline phase was established by measuring the dependent variables of edema, pain, and ROM. Next, the treatment/intervention phase was established by measuring the same dependent variables while subjects received MEM treatments.

The relationship among five common carpal tunnel syndrome tests and the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship among clinical carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) tests and the severity of CTS. A total of 66 subjects with electrodiagnostically confirmed CTS were tested on five CTS tests, then classified according to the severity of CTS. An association was found between testing positive on Phalen's test and the severity of CTS (p < 0.