The clinical evaluation of the upper limb joints' function: back to Hippocrates.
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Abstract
This article provides evidence that evaluation of upper limb joint function may be performed without the use of instruments and using only clinical means to diagnose in most cases. Hippocrates would have proceeded the same way in the early ages of medicine.
Medical subject headings
- Joints
- Physical Examination
- Upper Extremity
Anatomy
- elbow
- shoulder
- wrist