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Hand and finger dexterity ............................................................... 39<br />

Purdue Pegboard ......................................................................... 39<br />

Quality of life ................................................................................... 41<br />

SF-36 ............................................................................................ 41<br />

QUEST .......................................................................................... 42<br />

Adherence and Injury ...................................................................... 43<br />

Statistics .......................................................................................... 43<br />

Chapter 4 - Results ................................................................................. 45<br />

Strength - 5RM Assessment ............................................................ 48<br />

Elbow flexion ............................................................................... 49<br />

Wrist flexion ................................................................................ 50<br />

Wrist extension ............................................................................ 51<br />

Hand and finger dexterity - Purdue Pegboard Assessment.............. 52<br />

Single handed tasks ..................................................................... 52<br />

Quality of Life (general) - SF-36 ....................................................... 55<br />

Physical Health and Mental Health .............................................. 55<br />

Quality of Life (ET Specific) - QUEST ................................................ 57<br />

Physical and Psychosocial ............................................................ 58<br />

Communication and Hobbies and Leisure .................................... 59<br />

Work and Finance ........................................................................ 60<br />

Chapter 5 - Discussion ............................................................................ 61<br />

Strength ....................................................................................... 61<br />

Hand and finger manual dexterity ............................................... 63<br />

Quality of life ............................................................................... 66<br />

Practical Significance.................................................................... 68<br />

Chapter 6 - Study limitations & future studies ....................................... 69<br />

Chapter 7 - Conclusion ........................................................................... 71<br />

References ............................................................................................. 72<br />

Appendices ............................................................................................ 90<br />

Appendix A - Abbreviations ................................................................ 90<br />

Appendix B - Ethics Approval .............................................................. 91<br />

Appendix C - Mean and Standard deviation data ................................ 93<br />

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