An exercise program for carpometacarpal osteoarthritis based on biomechanical principles

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To the Editor: I was excited to see the article An Exercise Program for Carpo-metacarpal Osteoarthritis Based on Biomechanical Principles in the July-September 2012 issue of the Journal of Hand Therapy and always appreciate the time, effort, and dedication it takes to prepare such an article. 1 eagerly read the article looking for precise exercise recommendations for patients with thumb carpometa-carpal (CMC) osteoarthritis (OA) to see if they correlated with the conclusions I have drawn from my own less formal but extensive literature review and from my many years of clinical practice. I read and re-read many of the references, but still was unable to appreciate direct correlation of some of the exercises recommended in the illustrated Appendix B to the content of the article.