Paper by M King, A Nicholls and F Collins entitled ‘A wrist extension operated lateral key-pinch grip orthosis for people with tetraplegia” , July 2008 can be found athttp://iospress.metapress.com/content/g6q626830373852v/.
Abstract:
A new tenodesis orthosis is described for assisting people who have a cervical spinal injury resulting in reduced grasp function.
The orthosis utilises wrist extension to produce a lateral key grip between the thumb and proximal or middle phalanx of the index finger.
An assessment tool was developed to measure functionality using ADL tasks and a Preston pinch meter was used to measure grip strength.
After 6-weeks training, use of the orthosis increased lateral key grip on average by 3 times and the number of tasks achieved increased from 6 to 11 out of the 13 tasks measured.
The learning effect from the training protocol was significant (P = 0.04) and use of the orthosis reinforced the movement pattern required to achieve a standard tenodesis grasp.
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