@article{10336,
  keywords = {Disabled Persons, Health Education, Humans, leprosy, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Ulnar nerve},
  author = {Pedrazzani E S and Maluf S A and Pedroso M and Toyoda C Y},
  title = {[Disability prevention in Hansen's disease: reality at a health service].},
  abstract = {<p>In Hansen's disease, the third part of advanced incidences or non treated cases exhibit some patterns of physical incapacity, besides the prejudice and beliefs generated by deformities-which the patients may present if they do not get a correct treatment. Which basis on this problematical question of the disease a group of professionals composed of medical doctors, nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist and social worker made a study of the incapacities of the Hansen's disease patients through a detailed physical exam. This study intended to identify sensory and motor injuries of the face, upper and lower limbs. This study also develops a research about the necessity to systematize the assistance given in a public health center.</p>},
  year = {1985},
  journal = {Hansenologia internationalis},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {10-22},
  month = {1985},
  issn = {0100-3283},
  language = {por},
}