Physiotherapy: an overestimated factor in after-treatment of fractures in the distal radius?

Arch Orthop Trauma Surg

Surgical Department A, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.

Published: September 1997

Supervision by physiotherapists, starting 4-6 weeks after cast removal, was compared with self-training in 110 patients treated for Colles' fracture. The patients guided by physiotherapists were all satisfied with the treatment, but no functional advantages could be discerned when compared with self-training.

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