Retrospective chart review suggests patients referred to therapy following digit and partial thumb amputations have decreased pain and improved function

Inclusion criteria 18 years of age or older, a diagnosis of a thumb or digit amputation, received occupational therapy services at a level I trauma center in the Southwestern United States and had pre- and -post-therapy scores in the medical records on the QuickDASH 1 van de Stadt LA Kroon FPB Kloppenburg M. Measures of hand function. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020; 72: 321-341https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24352 Crossref PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar and or/visual analog (VAS)/numeric pain scales (NPS). 2 Hawker GA Mian S Kendzerska T French M Measures of adult pain: visual analog scale for pain (VAS pain), numeric rating scale for pain (NRS pain), McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ), short-form McGill pain questionnaire (SF-MPQ), chronic pain grade scale (CPGS), short form-36 bodily pain scale (SF-36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP). Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011; 63: S240-S252https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.20543 Crossref PubMed Scopus (3014) Google Scholar Patient data, from 134 charts spanning a 3-year period between 2018 and 2021, were reviewed. Charts were identified using a broker in a health science center data warehouse to locate electronic medical records with ICD9/ICD10 codes corresponding to amputation.