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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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