Effects of litigation on maintenance of psychological symptoms after severe hand injury
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B K Grunert1, H S Matloub, J R Sanger
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
Severe psychological symptoms after severe work-related hand injury, manifested as posttraumatic stress disorder, are not significantly potentiated or sustained by concomitant litigation if the patient has had early psychologic intervention. This study does not support assumptions about "accident neurosis" that delays recovery from the psychological sequelae of severe work-related hand injury.

