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14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)

17.06. - 21.06.2019, Berlin

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Comparison of scales used in the evaluation of children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy

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  • presenting/speaker Müberra Tanriverdi - Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Zeynep Hosbay - Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Safiye Ozkan - Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Atakan Aydin - Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy. 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). Berlin, 17.-21.06.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2020. DocIFSHT19-1316

doi: 10.3205/19ifssh1452, urn:nbn:de:0183-19ifssh14525

Published: February 6, 2020

© 2020 Tanriverdi et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Clinical issue/s: Functional evaluations are important for determining the level of the patient who is obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP), choosing the appropriate treatment and determining the effectiveness of the treatment.

Clinical reasoning: Our aim in our study; Comparison of different clinical evaluation methods in children with OBPP.

Innovative, analytical or new approach: 16 Cases with OBPP were included in the study. The mean age was 7.87±3.81 years, birth weight 3856.153±600.548 gram, and 7 (43.8%) girls, 9 (56.3%) boys of all.

Contribution to advancing HT practice: BPOM, MACS, QUEST and Mallet scales were applied to children with OBPP. BPOM's disease specificity is different from other scales with upper extremity functions as well as appearance and self-evaluation subheading.