Comparison of the Effects of Flexion and Extension of the Thumb and Fingers on the Position and Cross-Sectional Area of the Median Nerve.docVIP

ComparisonoftheEffectsofFlexionandExtensionof theThumbandFingersonthePositionandCross- SectionalAreaoftheMedianNerve YasushiToge1,YukihideNishimura1*,JeffreyR.Basford4,TakakoNogawa1,MidoriYamanaka1, TakeshiNakamura1,MunehitoYoshida2,AkiraNagano3,FumihiroTajima1 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan, 2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University,Wakayama,Wakayama,Japan,3DepartmentofOrthopedicSurgery,HamamatsuUniversitySchoolofMedicine,Hamamatsu,Shizuoka,Japan,4Departmentof PhysicalMedicineandRehabilitation,MayoClinic,Ro