Clinical Assessments of Hand Function in First Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis Do Not Appear to Correlate with Radiographic Findings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thumb carpometacarpal (first CMC) osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative process affecting hand use, is typically assessed by clinical examination and radiographs. This assessment determines treatment, but it may not reflect functional limitations.

Questions/purposes

We aimed to explore the relationship between measures of hand function and radiographs in individuals with and without first CMC OA.

Methods

We designed a cross-sectional, observational pilot study, enrolling five patients with first CMC OA (nine thumbs with modified Eaton-Littler grades ranging from 1 to 4, using retrospective radiographic data) and nine healthy controls. They underwent evaluation of hand function using four patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)-the Patient-Specific Functiona

SUBMITTER: Weinstock-Zlotnick G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6778263 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature