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turn in everybody uh i hope you saw my email address i do
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not object if people have questions that you email me and
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send your questions to me and i'm also prepare to maybe share a p. d. f. with my talk so you don't have
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to put your phone up all the time because sometimes that gets a little weird when all those points go up
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so you can get a p. d. f. if you write an email alright i'm
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gonna talk about early active treatment of extensive tenants joe's three through seven
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and um why we started doing early actives kind of interesting because the review done
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in two thousand eight by tall smart showed that there was really no difference
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in the beginning there was a whole different short term evidence at four weeks early
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controlled was a little bit better than him always asian but twelve weeks
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and we know this the results were equal so it was no problem there so why do early active it's so much more difficult
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but in a later review by hammond in two thousand twelve
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show that yes there were no long term differences but
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fairly active had way less complications that immobile stationarity passive with the dynamic traction
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you can see the numbers here i'm sorry uh four point one percent four point three percent and already active one point seven
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but if you take notice of what the uh complications are the mobile station and dynamic
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have tina licenses that need to be to be done and sometimes extends or like
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to rupture sort of the same in all three of them but the problems that you see here art he jens
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and they need secondary surgery so they're just as bad as a rupture because you have
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to re operate so it's still a failed result even though it's not a rupture
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so um because of that we went to uh try to the movie early with the extends attendance
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making a mobile us you can do dynamic passive mobile station not my style i'm at today we're not
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only gonna talk about two active protocols and not about the not active particles is not discussed today
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but active mobile i say she can do two ways you can do a limited park motion kind of early motion and you
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can do relative motion extension which was of of a written
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up by doctor merit and julie how will the therapist
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uh so the first one the short arc motion to limit our motion it's it's uh um i
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spent that was actually a very simple the forty five degrees extension of terrorist groups and
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thirty to fifty if a decrease faction of the n. p. joins the original article says fifty degrees but i tend to go to thirty
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uh i do this all night i cried my surgeon all i decide to do
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this meant all the tendons are injured because my preferences with relative motion
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but if you do this you have to exercise is a very simple protocol active extension from
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this point with straight fingers and the other exercises p. i. p. d. r. p. flexion
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my you scratch with your fingertips on the splint and you pull them into flexion you
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do that very slowly don't go straight into flexion because then you get ruptures
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and you have to rule for you do this for four weeks with for exercise of
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four repetitions per day and four repetitions per exercises for for for a very easy
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then gradually you increase the flexion you scratch the surface of the spongy get into flexion and after four
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to six weeks you get out of the splint depending on how much extension like you have
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and sometimes you have to stay to spend for another two weeks if you still have
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a lack and otherwise you can just go increase flexion and then things are just
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great because it's a very easy and it works protocol it works really well
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but sometimes you have this stubborn tendency from right from the beginning it you can't get it up
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and then it might be an idea to put this little v. shapes plant
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in there is an insert and it keeps the digit at in extension
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so at night you'll have a couple of hours of extension and rest
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so that's a good idea to do so that was one protocol
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um the research bible strode show that if you compare
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this one with dynamic a passive and immobile association with the i. p. in the pipe the l. p. free
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that again the total actor range of motion was less it for weeks but at
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twelve weeks results were sort of the same the grip strike was decreased
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compared to the other side at twelve weeks and that was significant but also they tested if there was
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any functional problem and the patients had no functional problem so there was decrease of grip strength
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but still there was good function but what is not in this research is relative motion and we know from the research from
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her if that about of motion is significantly better than him organisation so it should be better than all three of these
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so but of motion extension it's my treatment of choice it
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was a founded by doctor married in richmond virginia
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and he said if you uh put the route of motion extension split on that were remote access to repair
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regardless of where your fingers or as long as one the injured finger is higher than the other fingers
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at the end p. joint and he did that with a cadaver you pulled on d. v. d. c. and he
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made a little cut in the accent attended and you saw getting if there was no relative motions plant
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and if you put the finger up in extension any pulled the same way on the
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c. d. c. so there was no capping so apparently you can do this
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and he started doing isn't it for many years and after many years because you start
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in nineteen seventy seven two thousand five he came out with his uh results
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and his protocol was basically based on one rule you
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need one tending to be intact that's important
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then the first couple of days and i have to say that this a protocol is actually an
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updated protocol uh uh from what it was the beginning uh i spoke to julie how
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and she uh told me how she changed it in two thousand seventeen last year and this is the
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updated protocol so the couple of numbers will be different from what you see in the literature
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so the first ten days you start with the relative motion extensions point it'll be in fifteen degrees of
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extension compared to the other fingers and you have a wrist splint uh in twenty
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five degrees extension but neil is that a lot of a therapist now
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don't use the wrist splint for zones four and five so you'll see
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that happening more and more the exercise you do is focused
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and full thirst and full extension where you gradually introduce it don't do it on the first day right way full range motion
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and if you do not use to respond then of course you're not allowed to
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do with faction and act and make a fist that's not a lot
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so this is the protocol for the first week or ten days and not using to respond has been
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done for about the and i would say i think it's couple years like five years now
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and there's about four hundred patients globally it have been safely treated without to respond so it can be done
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safely okay so it's done more and more letters on six and seven you still need to respond
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so after those first seven to ten days you start gradually
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doing more exercise as you add respond to x. exercises
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where you have to take off to respond all obviously and again no waste faced with the was function together
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a full thing or extension should be full it should be full now so by two weeks you
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should have full extension in this point and they can use their hands as the splints allow
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just like activities the crucial extra information that the the writers of the protocol would like to give is that
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you have to tell the patient to we are displayed at all times and if you do not we're
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to respond you should put it on at night at least for user difference played as you can see here
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where you have the the the relative motion split off and have a full splint for at night
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and you do your exercises five to ten times every waking hour i don't really necessary believing that if people
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do really well i don't do every hour and i don't do five to ten times i'll do less
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if it works well light eight yell if possible and spent like duties if it's possible displayed
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then the next two weeks uh this owns four and five you can stop the response so you only
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have to butts motion but zero six and seven you'll continue between the exercise too weird to respect
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and you can use your hand more and more as it allows a more tension on the tandem
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and the next two weeks four to six weeks also owns have
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only the relative motion spent there's no response anymore you can
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go from like two medium to heavy use with your hands people go to work with the splint on no problem
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and at six weeks basically all the relative motion spence should and should stop except when you
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do have the labour work you can try to one word a little bit longer
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it's satan proven since nineteen seventy seven i like i said doctor merit he
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did a lot of these in a period since nineteen seventy seven
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and at six weeks early measured early six weeks he had
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two ways of measuring the a range of motion the
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mean compared to normal and it took total active motion and they were both very high ninety eight point five
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grip strength was eighty five percent compared to the other side and mind you it's at six weeks not twelve weeks
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so you already have a strong hand and this is really important they only
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saw them an average of eight times during the whole session and
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mostly they were discharged seven weeks so that's when they were done and could go back to work and go on living
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their lives with a normal hand no ruptures no dystrophy no infections
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and so to return to work is really the big selling point on this one and the mean
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return to work was eighteen days so with spends on they can go back to work
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alright so retrospective there was an article done by herself and she actually get
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not used to respond and she traded a whole bunch of patience and she measured
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this combination the relative motion and at night the static spent and she compared that to four weeks casting the
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two weeks weeding out of the cast so immobile station no ruptures no extension like that were installed
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so here are the results and early results at six weeks you can see that a lot of motion is doing
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really really well did an excellent and a couple of fear now the mobile station is not doing so great
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and if you look at twelve weeks then you see still twelve weeks almost all of them are
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excellent and the okay the mobile station came back and there's a whole bunch and they're
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good a couple of excellent but it takes so long it takes such a long time to
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get to that result in with the route of motion you get it really early on
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and the other thing is if you had your hand her to you want a good or next that result we all want excellent
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results and you get a lot more chances are excellent results we do about this motion if you look at these graphs
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and that's the work thing again because this is the big selling point of course
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it's a financially better for for for a health care system for working patient because as you can see
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forty two days earlier at work if you do relative motion almost
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have was back to work at six weeks and before six
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weeks and manual workers or people with heavy duty work there were five out of eleven that we're back to work
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with their spends on so you can go back to work if you have your own business it's no problem
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here's some results this is eight weeks for therapy visits settle band digit uh third digit
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and the result is just excellent and to say excellent i mean we're talking excellent results here
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this is an excellent results delayed repair two weeks was missed in the e. r.
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a patient a little scared she wore the responded about emotional longer then supposed to be for
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the protocol but this is her range of motion at twelve weeks in she had
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a full recovery of record strength to so this is not just a good
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result this is an excellent result there's no difference with other fingers
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the last article that came out on relative motions in two thousand seventeen by wong
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and he the systematic review over a long period of time uh nineteen sixty c. already started
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uh and you can see there's a slight better result forty buttons motion and he says it's
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only slightly better but it's still the best choice because of the low cost fast return
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to work less time in therapy and the normal use of the hand while there or
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in the split you don't sit and spent for six weeks not using your hand
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so um expenses three four again we're not gonna talk about the not active
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are gonna go to is relative motion faction and short arc motion
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the shorter commotion was done by evans sheep started this whole
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protocol it's been around since the nineteen early nineteen eighties
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uh in this political you have standard p. l. p. extensions split post operative you have this little splint
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and then during the day you going to an exercise point where you do act oops active extension
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uh from the template split that you get and you put displayed on and then you do
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your extension your faction just very much liked an arch that i just showed you
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and you go to thirty degrees of uh the sponge limit then you also if
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the lateral bands or not a cut you can do this exercise splint
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they get a little template where you hold the p. i. p. straight and the u. d. r. p. exercise reflection of the d. i. p.
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but only if that lateral bands are not injured that way you can exercise to
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d. i. p. without having to flex the p. i. p. this is what
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you do and then over time you increase the amount of flexion of the template
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splinter of some types point hey where you go into flexion more more
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but only progress if there's no extension like it's a very simple protocol it works really well
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but if you have a conservative uh injury you have not looked inside actually not really sure
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what that settles that is doing if it's actually gonna heal in the right place cell
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in this protocol the way she describes it uh the first two weeks you will do
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full time normalisation sometimes combined in therapy with the therapist doing
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a little bit of short arc motion and after two
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weeks then should go to the normal short arc motion protocol and that sort of continues like i said before
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she has some numbers and she did get an extension like about six six degrees but
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she got pretty much good results all around so that's a pretty good protocol
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now doctor married looked at relative motion flexion because he found this when he was working
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on a cadaver you put the uh splint on about as much inflections plant
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and it was holding the digit in a little bit of flexion any made essential slip injury
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and then you started pulling on b. e. d. c. and you see it happening here
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it's a very old video but you can still see what's happening is pulling on the d. c. and you can see that
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the index finger is just extending find there's nothing wrong with it even though there is a sense of the injury
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a certain point he will take off the splint there goes and now is gonna let go is gonna pull on the t. v. c. n.
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b. c. in two or three poles that the hyper extension of the m. p.s obvious and the p. l. p. goes into flexion
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and there you got you put near so if you leave the extension i'm checked and allow that
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m. p. hyper extension to happen then things will fall apart at the p. l. p. joint
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now we think it works like this that if you block the hyper extension then the extension for
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space shuttle feel the connections to the lateral bands and so p. i. p. extensions possible
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but only if you have passive p. i. p. extension of course if you have a stiff p. l. p.s not gonna go up obviously but if you have
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the acute injury then this will be no problem and so through the connections the dorsal pull on the level bands will be
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helping the extension through whatever remains of the extends or mechanism right
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so doctor merit i talk i'm just this last week to make sure that i had the latest news
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and he is reading a chapter for the rehabilitation of they handed up extremity it's in press
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and he says you know you really should talk about bin slows rumbles and a
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lot of people don't know what that is well is that shape right there
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and winslow describe it and basically says if you look at extends or mechanism you have to central slip
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you have the medial slip and the lateral slip and they join together with the can joint level bands to the and the
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terminal slip that is the wrong bus right there and he
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works with this to explain how relative motion flexion works
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he says if you look at the p. i. clean directly location on this diagram
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of extensive mechanism there's your i hope your um romp us if you
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pull one t. v. c. which has six to ten millimetre glide accord to
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doctor merit this is then you will see that the wrong visible narrow
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so you would get a raising of the let it list the lateral bands up you can imagine that from a two d. to three picture
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now at the t. i. p. joint it's only want to three millimetre quite so he doesn't
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feel that if you do deity function it actually lives up the level bands that much
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so the e. d. c. pension is really important in getting that
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robust it's get smart uh to leave the lateral bands up
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so this is the explanation that is around and uh of course
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be low relative motion function but it doesn't always work
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sometimes there's so much damage that it will not go up and even when you
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block hyper extension you will not have a extension of the p. l. p.
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and the other thing is if you have the more than twenty degrees flexion contract sure the joint is stuck in
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p. i. p. flexion that lateral band if you pull on that e. c. you can look at the picture
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it's never gonna go up i mean everybody understands that if you have a stiff p. l. p. joint
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so you need that passive p. l. p. extension for this where sorry i'm not the best has that
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doctor long and i feel and this is already done by therapist for
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ages i mean uh julie how what i used to work
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with document we always put the pencil and there were talking late you just look if you put the time waiting there
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you can see if they can still extend or not so you're looking at if they can
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still extend through the change balance in the extension mechanism i don't care for something
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cut but if it's cut and you can still extend then you can use wrote that
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much inflection okay so there's still parts of the extent to make isn't working
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now this is the therapy sessions i'm gonna go a little bit more into how to do this you do the pencil test
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directly post injury and you look at what's happening if there's no extension
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then you do first three to four weeks of the mobile station in extension
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and then after that for three to six weeks or maybe even longer used about abortion flexion spot
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if you do have extension then you could still opt for seven days of rest in
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extensions point or you could just directly started about a motion flexion that's up to
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the clinician over the surgery therapist was looking at it but apart
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from this you always need a nighttime extension split because
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they sleep with band fingers and i don't think it's very comfortable to sleep with a relative motion functions point
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so you have a next point and how does the official protocol work
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the first two weeks or an extension and you can leave the d. i. p. free if the level bands are intact
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the next two weeks you still have your resting spent in extension but
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it will be removable the other one should not be removal really
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and you exercise with the relative motion flexion spent four five times a day for about half an hour you just do
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your things you don't have to do a real exercises just move your hand upon some activity with the splint on
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and the surgeons are a little worried about that flexion then you can put a little stop on it you can
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see that blue splint here and it's really a clip on split the decision but the motion flexion splint
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and this is the clip on and this is the short arc motion that i discussed earlier
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so you have a block you go to flexion you can extend the flexion or you can increase the flexion down
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and they were the the relative motion is to make sure that you have the
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full extension of the p. i. p. joint when you have correct extension
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so that's what you do and and the four to six weeks of course you have all data relative motion no uh p.
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i. p. resting spent during the day anymore you can put a block down to more flexion down to sixty and
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then you stop it you can do they can do light activities as the spent allows because you can do a lot
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of things with the splints on even though you had that little block there and again the next point an extension
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and then the last thing is sixty eight plus weeks and make sure you see the plus there because
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you sometimes have to go for three four months and if you have for p. i. p. extension
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what about the motion at they time you can increase flexion take the block away
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the questions you should ask as a surgeon and as a therapist you wanna
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know the answers how much p. l. p. flexion is safer to repair
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and you can check that with well launched but if not then you have to ask assertion but he feels comfortable with
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is there p. i. p. extension possible passive at least twenty
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degrees should be uh up to twenty decreases okay
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and this is an important one you really have to have d. i. p. flexion and extension
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should be lose the l. p. especially if you work with chronic put in your
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if you have a chronic good near you can still do conservatively and then you will have to pass a p. x. p. l. p.
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extension coming up to less than twenty degrees and the d. i.
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p. should be free otherwise it really doesn't work that well
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with the acute injuries you needful passive p. x. p. extension in a normal d. i. p. but that would be normal if you
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have an acute injury because there's nothing wrong with your finger before you hit and again increased p. i. p. flexion carefully
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just to remind you this protocol is no our cities there's no publications
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it's a work in progress and really assertion that therapist together can
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work their protocol out if you just keep to the general idea that why i presented here so you have to customise it
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ideally uh the the problem is easy i mean you just correct it but we see
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so many times that these thinkers even if you haven't straight in your splint
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or with surgery that these p. l. p. flexion contractors come back so wise is
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happening keep couple of treatment tricks here i talked earlier about this the
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surgeon as therapist have to be teachers and coaches and learn about how to finger moves you don't want to have
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things are moving in the wrong pattern so you have to observe how they move and i call this the cortex effect
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and you have to make sure that you see happening that if they have a p. i. p. get stiff
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that they don't going to hyper extension at the m. c. p. joint because that's what's happening
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and we know this because whiteboard on two thousand eleven he found that after seventy two hours
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of the molestation you already lost the cortex um uh
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s. according to your really lost your uh in control of your p. l. p. extension
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the normal pattern so you have a change pattern and that becomes the normal
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and don't underestimate is cortex effect you see this all the time hyper extension set of exchange of the
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p. i. p. you'll never get p. l. p. extension if you don't move the right way
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what happens to rest a day if we do our standard exercise as well that's all fine and dandy
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twelve hours stopped you exercise five minutes per hour so that's in our data you exercise
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the rest of the day we do all this stuff p. i. p. extension you
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rarely do pure peaks angie do p. l. p. flexion all day long
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and if these people extend they'll extent with n. p. hyper extension and not p. i. p. extension
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so this is what you wanna stop because the rest of the day they're doing this kind of stuff and these are exercises too
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so your little exercise once in our couple of repetitions is not gonna cut it so what you wanna do
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is use not that much inflection they can exercise all they they don't have to think about it
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it will be on there because it doesn't bother them so the key to spend on and they'll have
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a full time on used often don't need additional therapy they can do it all by themselves
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and the other way around if you going to flexion you can see here
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they start moving from the m. p. join so they get an intrinsic
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muscle dominance when they close their hand and then you'll see this happening when they try to
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make flexion with their p. i. p. d. n. people going to way too much flexion
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we can do all kinds of exercises but what you wanna do is you wanna
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avoid forceful uh flexion because then they going to this change the pattern
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uh that you can do exercises with a little bit of the just a little
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bit of force you put a little line here you put your finger
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down there you have to pull the thing you're back and scratch are slight
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back so it's no forced just easy moving and that will work better
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and then of course you can use both of motion extension and the same thing happens here while they want to flex
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the relative motion extensions point will give the block to the wrong movement as in too much hype
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hyper flexion or too much flexion of the n. p. join so it blocks the m. p. flexion
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and they use it all day and all they do their activities in every remote movement
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is actually an exercise so wedded motion extension can be really great to correct that
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last slide this is an interesting one because we all know that they
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don't all work so we end up with these put nears that are basically horrible
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and the only thing you can do is you can't use route to
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most inflection because they're down into much flexion remember you have to
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have some passive p. l. p. extension so what you have to do is you get to pass appeared extension so you start casting
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plaster of paris a hundred percent full time i put a little piece of tape on
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there so they can't take it off because the the castle stick to the tape
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um you reduce it to twenty degrees and you also have to pay
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special care to d. i. p. joint get that first into flexion
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and once you've done that that's hard and then you can use that cast to straighten
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out the p. of digits it's like a two parts plant here are cast
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and then once you get the extension then you can go to the next step where you test and if they have
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active extension with the pencil test then by all means just go straight to that but probably with these old news that's not gonna work
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so then at eight weeks if you do not have that active extension then you go for another eight weeks
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but this time it's a cast that you can move your d. r. p. m. because you did get it straight so now you can exercise
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if you do have extension then you'd put on the relative motion extensions point
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night time spent in extension is important and sometimes endured is both splints
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on for six months to a year because it takes that long to wait
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for the p. i. p. to actually you'll so it doesn't recur
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a full year yes the nature of p. l. p. faction contract raise it comes back with a vengeance it's
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just horrible it just won't stop you have to wait a long time before that stops coming back
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and because of the way we use our hands be two more flexion and extension
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so it will come back if you stop to early with your splints
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so yes why not put about of motion factions point on doesn't bother them
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let them wear it and at night the night time extensions point
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so there it is uh a lot of little splits and i think it's
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important to know that if you pay attention to the little details
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you will get more better you get better results so attention to detail is good
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alright doctor my doctor

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June 15, 2018 · 2:52 p.m.