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January 19, 2025

Thumb strength and mobility in workers with De Quervain’s tenosynovitis: evaluation and impact on hand performance

Abstract

The researchers characterized the pain and the strength and mobility deficits, as well as the functional capacity of healthy subjects and others with De Quervain’s disease by using clinical and experimental tools. The results indicate a reduction in thumb mobility and symptomatic strength measurements compared to a healthy hand, but also an asymptomatic hand. Furthermore, the analyses resulted in a model being proposed that suggests that pain causes a reduction in hand mobility and strength, and that these two variables contribute independently to a reduction in upper limb performance. This study reveals that strength, mobility and pain are pertinent variables in results measurement in the population with this disease.

Produced Under this Project

  • Comparison of strength measurement under single-joint ans multi-joint condition in hemiparetic subjects

    Mercier C., Bertrand M., Bourbonnais D.

    Source :

    Clinical Rehabilitation, vol. 19, no 5, 2005, p. 523-530

  • Dynamic analysis of trunk flexion following stroke

    Messier S., Bourbonnais D., Desrosiers J., Roy Y.

    Source :

    Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, vol. 85, no 10, 2005, p. 1619-1624

  • Quantification of level of effort of the plantarflexors and hip extensors and flexor muscles in healthy subjects walking at different cadences

    Requiao L. F., Nadeau S., Milot M. H., Gravel D., Bourbonnais D., Gagnon D.

    Source :

    Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, vol. 15, no 4, 2005, p. 393-405

  • Weight bearing on the lower limbs in sitting position during bilateral movements of the upper limbs in post-stroke subjects

    Messier S., Bourbonnais D., Desrosiers J., Roy Y.

    Source :

    Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, vol. 37, no 4, 2005, p. 242-246

  • Effectiveness of unilateral and symmetrical bilateral task training for upper extremity during the sub-acute phase after stroke: a randomized controlled trial

    Desrosiers J., Bourbonnais D., Corriveau H., Gosselin S., Bravo G.

    Source :

    Clinical Rehabilitation, vol. 19, no 6, 2005, p. 581-593

  • Bilateral thumb active range of motion and strength in de Quervain’s disease: comparison with a normal population

    Forget N., Piotte F., Arsenault J., Harris P., Bourbonnais D.

    Source :

    Journal of Hand Therapy, vol. 21, no 3, 2008, p. 276-285

Additional Information

Type: Project
Number: 0099-1720
Status: Completed
Year of completion: 2007
Research Field: Occupational Rehabilitation
Team:
  • Daniel Bourbonnais (Université de Montréal)
  • Patrick Harris (Université de Montréal)
  • Katia Fournier (Université de Montréal)
  • Josée Arsenault (Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal)
  • Élisabeth Dutil (Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay de Montréal)
  • Sophie Jeannine De Serres (Université McGill)
  • Gina Bravo (Université de Sherbrooke)