Assessment, patient selection, and rehabilitation of nerve transfers.
Emma A Bateman, Juliana Larocerie-Salgado, Douglas C Ross, Thomas A Miller, Stahs Pripotnev
PMID 38058570WHAT IT FOUND
This paper is a narrative review summarizing existing expert recommendations on assessing nerve injuries, selecting patients for nerve transfer surgery, and managing post-operative rehabilitation.
It reports no new data or outcomes, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review summarizing the assessment, patient selection, and rehabilitation protocols for nerve transfer surgeries. It synthesizes existing knowledge and expert recommendations on clinical evaluation, electrodiagnostic testing, and post-operative phases. It does not report new data from a specific trial, cohort, or case series, so there are no new findings or outcomes here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the rehabilitation phases or electrodiagnostic timelines described in this review as evidence-based protocols derived from new clinical trials. This paper summarizes existing expert opinion and prior literature rather than reporting original research outcomes.