Introduction:

Hand injuries are one of the conditions most frequently treated in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service of the Hospital Central Militar, within the wide variety of these injuries are injuries to the flexor system.

Objective:

To estimate the incidence, functionality and labor reintegration time in patients with hand flexor system injuries treated at the Hospital Central Militar in the period from March 1, 2020 to March 1, 2022.

Methodology:

Observational, retrospective, longitudinal, descriptive study in adult patients with injury to the flexor system of the hand, in whom the cause of the injury did not result in complex trauma to the hand. The Strickland and Goglovac functional recovery criteria were used as reference.

Results:

Despite the fact that flexor zone II lesions in the literature present a worse prognosis for the recovery of normal hand function, the results show that most of the patients are in a good functional scale.

Limitations of the study:

The study was carried out during the period covered by the COVID pandemic, so that subsequent consultations with longer times and the late start of rehabilitation consultations could have contributed to a poorer recovery of functional recovery. from the patients.

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