PURPOSE: In the developed countries there is a shift in the rehabilitation strategy from community based services to work site based services for the disabled. Leprosy disabled are more at a disadvantage that many of them have not had the benefit of disability prevention activities and harbour such hand deformities for which the only solution is community based rehabilitation.
METHOD/RESULTS: Of the various modalities of rehabilitation the authors consider one for this article suitable for work site based rehabilitation as the Modulan grip-aids.
CONCLUSION: Essential components of the material and its uses are described with examples.
BT - Disability and rehabilitation C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11052208?dopt=Abstract DA - 2000 Sep 10-20 IS - 13-14 J2 - Disabil Rehabil LA - eng N2 -PURPOSE: In the developed countries there is a shift in the rehabilitation strategy from community based services to work site based services for the disabled. Leprosy disabled are more at a disadvantage that many of them have not had the benefit of disability prevention activities and harbour such hand deformities for which the only solution is community based rehabilitation.
METHOD/RESULTS: Of the various modalities of rehabilitation the authors consider one for this article suitable for work site based rehabilitation as the Modulan grip-aids.
CONCLUSION: Essential components of the material and its uses are described with examples.
PY - 2000 SP - 591 EP - 7 T2 - Disability and rehabilitation TI - Improving functions in leprotic hands. VL - 22 SN - 0963-8288 ER -