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Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatología

versión impresa ISSN 0864-215Xversión On-line ISSN 1561-3100

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SOSA SALINAS, ULISES; HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ, ALBERTO  y  MORFA VIAMONTES, FÉLIX. Trigger digit by nodule of the tendon flexor: treatment with electromagnetotherapy in primary care. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1997, vol.11, n.1-2, pp.25-30. ISSN 0864-215X.

An early phase II, open, nonsequential clinical assay was conducted among 50 patients over 16 years old with the diagnosis of trigger digit that received medical attention at the Orthopedics Department of the Central Community Polyclinic of Camagüey from May, 1995, to May, 1996. Patients were divided into 2 groups. A regimen of constant current was applied to one of them, and of unconstant current to the other, with a similar efficiency. As an average, 10 sessions were necessary to solve this affection. 100 % of the patients were cured at the end of the treatment. Only one had a relapse less than 3 months after the treatment. No adverse reactions were observed in the sample studied. According to the results obtained in this preliminary paper, electromagnetotherapy may be considered as a posibility for the conservative treatment of this disorder considered as eminently surgical, and it may be also used in primare care.

Palabras clave : FINGER INJURIES [therapy]; TENDONS [pathology]; FINGERS [pathology]; ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE.

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