Assesment of Opponens Hand Orthosis

Abstract

We used three types of opponens hand orthoses for patients with median nerve palsy. Conventional short opponens hand orthosis is a static type and has some problems with ADL. Therefore, we made two new types of dynamic opponens hand othoses, and compared them to the conventional static device. One of the dynamic opponens hand othoses is a three jaw chuck pinch type and the other is glove type opponens othosis. Our results showed that the glove type opponens hand othosis was the most functionally useful.