Journal of Hand Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1059-1066 , July 2010

Desensitizing the Posterior Interosseous Nerve Alters Wrist Proprioceptive Reflexes

  • Elisabet Hagert, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Elisabet Hagert, MD, PhD, Hand & Foot Reconstructive Surgery Center, Storängsv. 10, 11542 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Jonas K.E. Persson, MD, PhD

Received 30 November 2009 ,Accepted 15 March 2010.

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 The authors wish to thank the Department of Hand Surgery, Stockholm Soder Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, for providing the opportunity to conduct the experiment in their facilities. The authors also wish to thank Mr. Michael Gehlen for invaluable help with extraction of data from the KeyPoint and Hans Pettersson, PhD, for assistance with concerns regarding statistics.

 Support for this study was provided by the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

 No benefits in any form have been received or will be received related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.

PII: S0363-5023(10)00331-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2010.03.031

Journal of Hand Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1059-1066 , July 2010

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