{"id":99,"date":"2012-09-18T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2015-07-22T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:35:16","slug":"article-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/news-reviews\/related-literature\/article-2","title":{"rendered":"A Prospective RCT Comparing Occupational Therapy \u0003with Independent Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Related Literature<\/h1>\n<h2>THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY (JB&amp;JS)<\/h2>\n<h3>A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Occupational Therapy \u0003with Independent Exercises After Volar Plate Fixation of a Fracture of the \u0003Distal Part of the Radius<\/h3>\n<p>By J. Sebastiaan Souer, MD, Geert Buijze, MD, and David Ring, MD, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> The effect of formal occupational therapy on recovery after open reduction and volar plate fixation of a fracture of the distal part of the radius is uncertain. We hypothesized that there would be no difference in wrist function and arm-specific disability six months after open reduction and volar plate fixation of a distal radial fracture between patients who receive formal occupational therapy and those with instructions for independent exercises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> Prescription of formal occupational therapy does not improve the average motion or disability score after volar locking plate fixation of a fracture of the distal part of the radius.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbjs.org\/article.aspx?articleid=147475\" target=\"_blank\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Literature THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY (JB&amp;JS) A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Occupational Therapy \u0003with Independent Exercises After Volar Plate Fixation of a Fracture of the \u0003Distal Part of the Radius By J. Sebastiaan Souer, MD, Geert Buijze, MD, and David Ring, MD, PhD Background: The effect of formal occupational therapy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":94,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/careforpatients.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}