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Upper Limb Nerve Entrapment Syndromes in Veterans With Lower Limb Amputations

  • Jay Pyo, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20307†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: J.P.
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  • Paul F. Pasquina, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC‡
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  • Michael DeMarco, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC§
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  • Robert Wallach, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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  • Emily Teodorski, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs, Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh Healthcare System; Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA∥
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  • Rory A. Cooper, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs, Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh Healthcare System; Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA#

Received 11 June 2009 ,Accepted 6 October 2009.

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 This research was funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), Grant# W81XWH-08-1-0302 and was supported by resources at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare.

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PII: S1934-1482(09)01425-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.10.002

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