Highlights
- •A case report of a rare wrist fracture submitted to serious games protocol.
- •Serious games use provides different sensations to those experienced in conventional therapy.
- •The uniqueness is serious games use to reduce recovery and lost from work time.
Abstract
Study Design
Case report.
Introduction
A severe wrist fracture can cause permanent physical disabilities and deformities,
leading to limit patients in their occupation and social environment.
Purpose of the Study
We aim at presenting a treatment protocol and the functional outcome of a patient
with severe clinical state after a rare wrist fracture.
Methods
We provided physical therapy intervention associated with serious games for muscle
strengthening.
Results and Discussion
There was an increase in strengthening and a decrease in Disability of the Arm, Shoulder
and Hand score and Patient Rated Wrist Evaluation scores. The International Classification
of Functioning scores have changed from severe to light or to absent in many of the
domains.
Conclusion
The use of serious games combined with a conventional physical therapy intervention
played a fundamental role in recovery and return to work activities, and there was
also an important recovery of general health condition.
Keywords
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- # 1.The study design was
- a.case series
- b.case study
- c.RCTs
- d.qualitative
- a.
- # 2.The wrist fracture (Fx) was described as a
- a.Smith’s Fx
- b.Barton’s Fx
- c.complex Colle’s Fx
- d.combined articular distal radius Fx and articular ulnar head Fx
- a.
- # 3.The serious game therapy was characterized as
- a.unique
- b.superior to traditional hand therapy
- c.interactive
- d.created by the patient
- a.
- # 4.The fracture was surgically managed by
- a.dorsal ORIF
- b.volar ORIF
- c.pins and plaster
- d.cast immobilization
- a.
- # 5.Strengthening was initiated at 16 weeks post-op
- a.true
- b.false
- a.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 07, 2019
Accepted:
November 14,
2018
Received in revised form:
October 26,
2018
Received:
May 24,
2018
Footnotes
Funding: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior,Brasil (CAPES), finance code 001, CNPq and FAPEMIG.
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