High Doses of Total End Range Time Offer Better Results Than Low Doses Treating Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Stiffness

The treatment consisted of an exercise program in conjunction with the use of an extension elastic tension digital neoprene orthosis to generate two different daily total end range time doses. Group A patients used a dose of twenty to twenty-two hours of daily total end range time while group B patients used the extension elastic tension digital neoprene orthosis to achieve a daily total end range time between eleven and thirteen hours for a mean of twenty hours a day. The exercise program was the same for both groups.