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Flexor Tendon Repair Postoperative Rehabilitation: The Saint John Protocol

Overview
Journal Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
Specialty General Surgery
Date 2016 Dec 16
PMID 27975032
Citations 5
Authors
Amanda Higgins
Donald H Lalonde
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Abstract

The Saint John Protocol describes a rehabilitation program of up to half a fist of protected true active finger flexion beginning 3 to 5 days after flexor tendon repair. We no longer use full fist place and hold. We illustrate with film and text the reasons for these changes.

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