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Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage
Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether there exist the limits of finger tapping frequency in the peripheral nerve injury detection in upper limb, and the effects of rehabilitation treatment on upper limb with peripheral nerve injury through finger tapping. Methods: Here, 54 patients with...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30327614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01361 |
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author | Zhang, Lingli Lei, Le Zhao, Yilong Wang, Rong Zhu, Yulian Yu, Zhusheng Zhang, Xiaojing |
author_facet | Zhang, Lingli Lei, Le Zhao, Yilong Wang, Rong Zhu, Yulian Yu, Zhusheng Zhang, Xiaojing |
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description | Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether there exist the limits of finger tapping frequency in the peripheral nerve injury detection in upper limb, and the effects of rehabilitation treatment on upper limb with peripheral nerve injury through finger tapping. Methods: Here, 54 patients with peripheral nerve injury in upper limb were selected. We conducted finger tapping frequency test and Lind-mark hand function assessment score on the 54 subjects, and recorded the data 2-week before and after rehabilitation treatment. Results: Finger tapping frequency and Lind-mark hand function assessment score have a high positive correlation regardless of the side of upper limb with peripheral nerve injury before and after the rehabilitation treatment. Finger tapping frequency of the right affected hand after treatment is significantly higher than that of before treatment (male: P < 0.05; female: P < 0.01), while finger tapping frequency of the left affected hand after treatment shows no significant difference compared to before treatment. Meanwhile, finger tapping frequency of the female subjects' unaffected hand after treatment is significantly higher than before treatment (left: P < 0.01; right: P < 0.05), however, this was not observed in male subjects. Based on data analysis, there is a high-correlation between finger tapping frequency and Lind-mark score of the patients' affected hand with brachial plexus nerve injury. A trend of the patients' affected hand with radial nerve injury is similar with brachial plexus nerve injury. Conclusion: Compared with Lind-mark score, finger tapping frequency outperformed in the aspect of speed of neural impulse conduction in patients with peripheral nerve damage. |
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spelling | pubmed-61745392018-10-16 Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage Zhang, Lingli Lei, Le Zhao, Yilong Wang, Rong Zhu, Yulian Yu, Zhusheng Zhang, Xiaojing Front Physiol Physiology Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether there exist the limits of finger tapping frequency in the peripheral nerve injury detection in upper limb, and the effects of rehabilitation treatment on upper limb with peripheral nerve injury through finger tapping. Methods: Here, 54 patients with peripheral nerve injury in upper limb were selected. We conducted finger tapping frequency test and Lind-mark hand function assessment score on the 54 subjects, and recorded the data 2-week before and after rehabilitation treatment. Results: Finger tapping frequency and Lind-mark hand function assessment score have a high positive correlation regardless of the side of upper limb with peripheral nerve injury before and after the rehabilitation treatment. Finger tapping frequency of the right affected hand after treatment is significantly higher than that of before treatment (male: P < 0.05; female: P < 0.01), while finger tapping frequency of the left affected hand after treatment shows no significant difference compared to before treatment. Meanwhile, finger tapping frequency of the female subjects' unaffected hand after treatment is significantly higher than before treatment (left: P < 0.01; right: P < 0.05), however, this was not observed in male subjects. Based on data analysis, there is a high-correlation between finger tapping frequency and Lind-mark score of the patients' affected hand with brachial plexus nerve injury. A trend of the patients' affected hand with radial nerve injury is similar with brachial plexus nerve injury. Conclusion: Compared with Lind-mark score, finger tapping frequency outperformed in the aspect of speed of neural impulse conduction in patients with peripheral nerve damage. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6174539/ /pubmed/30327614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01361 Text en Copyright © 2018 Zhang, Lei, Zhao, Wang, Zhu, Yu and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Physiology Zhang, Lingli Lei, Le Zhao, Yilong Wang, Rong Zhu, Yulian Yu, Zhusheng Zhang, Xiaojing Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title | Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title_full | Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title_fullStr | Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title_full_unstemmed | Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title_short | Finger Tapping Outperforms the Traditional Scale in Patients With Peripheral Nerve Damage |
title_sort | finger tapping outperforms the traditional scale in patients with peripheral nerve damage |
topic | Physiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30327614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01361 |
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