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Improving functions in leprotic hands
1Comprehensive Leprosy Care Project & Medical Association, Novartis Compound, Tardeo, Mumbai, India.
Disability and Rehabilitation
|October 29, 2000
Abstract
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.