Journal of Hand Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 4 , Pages 559-565, April 2010

Ultrasonographic Assessment of Long Finger Tendon Excursion in Zone V During Passive and Active Tendon Gliding Exercises

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Received 23 July 2009; accepted 14 January 2010. published online 11 March 2010.

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 This study was supported by a 2009 to 2011 Nuts-Ohra Grant. No benefits in any form have been received or will be received related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.

 The authors gratefully acknowledge W.B. Vletter and all laboratory assistants from the Department of Cardiology of the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, for providing scanning facilities. We gratefully acknowledge Professor H. J. Stam, MD, PhD, for his help in editing this paper. We also kindly acknowledge J.N.M. Soeters, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, for his comments and H.L.D. Horemans, PhD, for his assistance with video analyses. Finally, we acknowledge all study participants.

PII: S0363-5023(10)00051-1

doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2010.01.010

Journal of Hand Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 4 , Pages 559-565, April 2010

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