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J N WILSON

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PubMed1954

Repair of tendons in the hand.

The physiologic processes by which tendons of the hand heal after injury differ from one part of the hand to another. Although definitive operation immediately after injury is advisable in many cases to avoid infection, factors other than infection may be more important and dictate delay.While early exercise to mobilize the tendon soon after repair would seem logical, actually the process of healing is such that during the third week the tendon is spontaneously freed from adherence to surrounding tissue. Motion earlier than that causes irritation at the point of suture of the two ends of the tendon and increases scar. After completion of the healing process, motion serves to increase the strength of the new tendon fibrils.

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