The purpose of this study is to provide the fundamental information for the rehabilitation of hand injury and to emphasize the point of early treatment of hand injury after operation. The subjects are composed with the physical therapists who care hand injury and are engaged in 76 university hospitals, 59 general hospitals and 88 semi and local clinics respectively. Investigator take the research form chart with 41 questionnaire and use the cross tabulation frequencies and one-way ANOVA of SPSS WIN(veri0_0) for the statistic analysis. The results of this research are as follows
I . The number of physical therapists who care hand injury are 110 men and 113 women.
2. The beginning period of active assertive exercise on the various type of injuries are as follows: At the case of flexor tendon injury, the most part of physical therapists make response to the period that is above 4 weeks in the rate of 29.1 %. At the case of fracture , the most part of physical therapists make response to the period those are from 3 weeks to less than 4 weeks and from 4 weeks to less than 5 weeks in the rate of 28.7% respectively. At the case of crushing injury, the most part of physical therapists response to the period that is above 4 weeks in the rate of 32.2%. At the case of amputation injury, the most part of physical therapists response to the period that is above 4 weeks in the rate of 40.4%.
3. In the physical therapy request, treatment period are mentioned in 22.0%.
4. The most difficult factors in the hand; treatment is to contractor soft tissue and joint to physical therapist in the rate of 59.6%.
5. Among the reasons of the intervention between physical therapy request and actual treatment, the case of wrong physical therapy request is examined in 69.4%.
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