Available Translations
Approved versions of the DASH Outcome Measure are now available in 56 languages and dialects.
Afrikaans
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
Email: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
Arabic
Credit and contact:
Dr. Naser Mohammed Alotaibi, Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
Email: ot_alotaibi@hsc.edu.kw or otnaser@yahoo.com
Armenian
Credit:
Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan, Dr. Davit Abrahamyan. Orthopaedic Department, "Arabkir" Joint Medical Centre. Yerevan, Armenia.
Contact:Dr. Davit Abrahamyan
Email: dabrahamyan@yahoo.com
Bulgarian
Credit and contact:
Johanna Jacobson- Petrov, BScOT, CHT, Division of Hand and Microsurgery,University Hospital of Emergency Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria
Email: johannajacobsonpetrov@yahoo.com
Chinese (Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong version)
Credit:
Edwin WC LEE; Jamie SY LAU;TS TAM; Mandy MH CHUNG, Physiotherapy Department, Prince of Wales Hospital
Contact:Edwin WC LEE, Prince of Wales Hospital
Email: edwinlee@cuhk.edu.hk
Chinese (Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong version)
Chinese (simplified version)
Credit and contact:
Dr. Le Qi, Hand Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, China
E-mail: ccqile@189.cn; qileqile@vip.qq.com
Chinese (Taiwan version)
Credit and contact:
Dr. Huey-Wen Liang, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital
E-mail: lianghw@ntu.edu.tw
Czech
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
Danish
Credit and contact:
Dr. Michel Boeckstyns, Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark.
E-mail: MIBO@geh.regionh.dk
Dutch
Credit and contact:
Dr. Arnold H Schuurman M.D. Ph.D, plastic and hand surgeon, Dept. Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
E-mail: a.schuurman@umcutrecht.nl
The Hand Clinic
Hettenheuvelweg 16, Amsterdam
E. Sleegers OT, Handencentrum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
E-mail: info@handencentrum.nl
English for Australia
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
English for Hong Kong
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
English for South Africa
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
English for UK
Credit and contact:
Alison Hammond, University of Salford, Salford, UK
E-mail: a.hammond@salford.ac.uk
Estonian
Credit and contact:
Mati Merila, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
E-mail: mati.merila@gmail.com
Filipino
Credit:
Dr. Emmanuel P. Estrella and Dr. Nathaniel S. Orillaza, Jr., Section of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Department of Orthopedics, University of the Philippines, Manila, PHILIPPINES. Special thanks to Dr. Stephen Tabillo
Contact:Emmanuel P. Estrella, University of Philippines, Manila, Philippines
E-mail: estee96@yahoo.com
Dr. Nathaniel Orillaza
E-mail: docnats@yahoo.com; docnats@gmail.com
Finnish
Credit:
Hannu Aro, Eeva Hacklin, Rami Madanat, Niko Strandberg, Orthopaedic Research Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Contact:Prof. Hannu T Aro, Orthopaedic Research Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University of Turku, Finland
E-mail: hannu.aro@utu.fi
French (Parisian version)
Credit:
T Dubert, C Dumontier, P Voche and A Dinh
Contact:Dr. Thierry Dubert
E-mail: thierry.dubert@noos.fr
French Canadian
Credit and contact:
Dr. Marie-José Durand, Université de Sherbrooke
E-mail: marie-jose.durand@usherbrooke.ca
German
Credit:
Guenter Germann, Angela Harth, Gerhard Wind & Erhan Demir
Contact:Angela Harth
E-mail: angela.harth@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Greek
Credit:
GS Themistocleous, MD, PhD, G Goudelis, MD, N Gerostathopoulos, MD, PhD, PN Soucacos, MD, FACS, Professor and Chairman in Orthopaedics. First Orthopaedic Department of Athens University Medical School and Department of Hand Surgery, KAT Hospital, Greece.
Contact:GS Themistocleous
E-mail: themistocleousgeorge@hotmail.com
Hebrew
Credit:
Efrat Ziv, Ety Shiwmer, Yael Kaufman and H Patish MD
Contact:Efrat Ziv
E-mail: efratziv1@gmail.com
Hindi
Credit:
Saurabh Mehta PT, PhD; Dr. Chandrakant Modi; Dr. Ramesh Tiruttani
Contact:Saurabh Mehta, School of Physical Therapy, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA
E-mail: mehtas@marshall.edu
Hungarian
Credit:
Dr. Cecilia Varju and Professor Laszlo Czirjak University of Pecs, Faculty of Medicine Department of Immunology and Rheumatology H-7621 Pecs, Irgalmasok u.1., Hungary
Contact:Dr. Cecilia Varju
E-mail: cecilia.varju@aok.pte.hu
Italian
Credit:
Dr. Gustavo Zanoli and GLOBE, Gruppo di Lavoro per l’Ortopedia Basata sulle prove di Efficacia
Contact:Dr. Gustaco Zanoli
E-mail: gzanoli@globeweb.org
Japanese
Credit:
Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand (JSSH)
Contact:Dr. Fuminori Kanaya, Professor and Chairman of Orthopedic surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
E-mail: fkanaya@med.u-ryukyu.ac.jp
Korean
Credit:
Dr. Joo-Yup Lee, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Catholic University of Korea, Dr. Jae Young Lim, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.
Contact:Dr. Joo-Yup Lee
E-mail: jylos1@gmail.com
Dr. Jae Young Lim
E-mail: drlim1@snu.ac.kr
Kurdish/sorani
Credit and contact:
Rebwar Abdalla Hasan, Orthopedic surgeon, Suleimaniah surgical teaching hospital, Suleimanyah, Iraq
Email: rebwar.allaf@gmail.com
Latvian
Credit and contact:
Guna Semjonova, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
Email: guna.semjonova@gmail.com
Lithuanian
Credit and contact:
Dr. Vytautas Gasiunas, Hand Institute, Paris, France
E-mail: gasiunas@gmail.com
Malay
Credit:
Dr. Ameer Al-husuny, M.B.Ch.B (Iraq), MSc Occup. (UPM); Associate Prof. Dr. Manohar Arumugam, MBBS, M.S.Ortho (Malaya); Prof. Dr. Lekhraj Rampal, MBBS, MPH, DRPH, FAMM; Dr. Jamayah Zakaria, PhD (UK); Dr. Yap Ngee Thai, Ph.D. (Malaya); Associate Prof. Dr. Raja Masittah Binti Raja Ariffin, Ph.D (UPM); Dr. Chan Mei Yuit, Ph.D. (Malaya); Ruhaibah Hassan, MSc. Math (MEC)
Contact:Dr. Manohar Arumugam, Department of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), University Putra Malaysia (UPM)
E-mail: manohar@medic.upm.edu.my
Nepali
Credit and contact:
Darren Reed, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, Australia
Email: darren.reed@sydney.edu.au
Sudarshan Kc, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, Australia
Email: sukc5405@uni.sydney.edu.au
Norwegian
Credit and contact:
Professor Vilhjalmur Finsen
E-mail: vilh.finsen@medisin.ntnu.no
Persian (Iran)
Credit:
Dr. Sayed Javad Mousavi, Dr. Khorsandi, Dr. Bahram Mobini, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Dr. Ali Montazeri, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, Tehran, Iran; Abdolkarim Karimi, Department of Physical Therapy, Isfahan university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; and Mohamad Parnianpour, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Contact:Dr.Sayed Javad Mousavi
E-mail: jmousavi@razi.tums.ac.ir
Polish
Credit and contact:
Dominik Golicki, Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
E-mail: dominik.golicki@wum.edu.pl
Portuguese for Brazil
Credit:
Adriana Garcia Orfale, Pola Maria Poli de Araújo, Marcos Bosi Ferraz and Dr. Jamil Natour, Disciplina de Reumatologia - UNIFESP/EPM, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Contact:Adriana Orfale
Email: adrianaorfale@hotmail.com or adrianaorfale@yahoo.com.br
Portuguese for Portugal
Credit:
(Dr.) Joseph Dos Santos & (Dr.) Rui Gonçalves, Escola Superior de Saúde Dr. Lopes Dias - Castelo Branco
Contact:(Dr.) Joseph Dos Santos
E-mail: josephdossantos@gmail.com
Romanian
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
Russian
Credit:
Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan, Dr. Davit Abrahamyan. Orthopaedic Department, "Arabkir" Joint Medical Centre. Yerevan, Armenia.
Contact:Dr. Davit Abrahamyan
E-mail: dabrahamyan@yahoo.com
Serbian
Credit:
Dr Tomislav Palibrk, Dr Sladjana Andjelkovic, Dr Suzana Milutinovic, Prof.Dr Marko Bumbasirevic. Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Contact:Dr Tomislav Palibrk
E-mail: palibrk@sbb.rs
Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
Credit and contact:
G. Amara Damayanthi Perera, Chief Physiotherapist, Burns and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Dompe, Sri Lanka
E-mail: amaradamayanthi@yahoo.com
Slovak
Credit:
Peter Kľoc, MUDr., Fakultná nemocnica s poli klinikou J.A. Reimana, Prešov, Slovakia; Beáta Kollárová, PhDr. PhD., Faculty of Health Care, University of Presov in Presov, Slovakia.
Contact:MUDr. Peter Kľoc
E-mail: klocpeter@hotmail.com
Slovene
Credit:
Dr. Novak E, Dr. Lavrič M, Dr. Semprimožnik K, Department of plastic, reconstructive and hand surgery, General hospital Celje, Slovenia
Contact:Katja Semprimožnik
E-mail: katja.semprimoznik@gmail.com
Spanish for Argentina
Credit and contact:
ICON Language Services, UK.
E-mail: ICONLSTransRequest@iconplc.com
Spanish for Chile
Credit:
Alberto Pérez MD, Javier Román MD, and Alfonso Pérez MD, Orthopedic Surgery Department of the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University, Santiago, Chile
Contact:Javier Román, MD
E-mail: romanjavi@gmail.com
Spanish for Dominican Republic
Credit:
Dr. Silvia Avilés Terrero, Dr. Vladimir Socías Abreu, Lic. Luis Ramón Pérez, Lic. Yamirys Gil, Ing. Silvia T. Terrero Moquete, Prof. Jennifer O’Daniel, Bach. Sarah Bode, Lic. Beatriz Arias, Hospital Dr. Salvador B. Gautier, Orthopedics Department, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Contact:Dr. Silvia Avilés Terrero
E-mail: drasilviaaviles@hotmail.com
Spanish for Mexico
Credit:
Gretchen Bachman, OTD, OTR/L, MBA/HCM, CEAS, CHT, Cynthia Ivy, OTD, OTR/L, M.Ed, CHT, Alina VanRuff, OTS, and Joseph Sanchez, OTS, Department of Occupational Therapy, Northern Arizona University, USA
Contact:Gretchen Bachman, Assistant Clinical Professor, Northern Arizona University, USA
E-mail: Gretchen.Bachman@nau.edu
Spanish for Puerto Rico
Credit and contact:
Ana Leticia Mulero, PhD, PT, Carmen L. Colon-Santaella, PhD, PT, and Cynthia Cruz-Gomez, MPH, PT. Supported by NIH, NIGMS/MBRS SCORE S06 GM008224
E-mail: ana.mulero@upr.edu
Spanish for Spain
Credit and contact:
R.S. Rosales, MD, PhD
E-mail: titorosales@telefonica.net or info@gecot.com
Swedish
Credit:
Isam Atroshi, MD, PhD. and colleagues
Contact:Isam Atroshi, MD, PhD
E-mail: Isam.Atroshi@skane.se
Tamil (India)
Credit:
Dr. Cynthia Srikesavan, Dr. Praveen Bhardwaj, Dr. S Raja Sabapathy, Mr. K. Gobinath, Dr. Ravindra Bharathi, Mr. A. Thangamani Ramalingam
Contact:Dr. Praveen Bhardwaj, MS (Ortho) FNB (Hand & Microsurgery); Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery; Ganga Medical Centre & Hospitals Pvt Ltd, 313 Mettupalayam road, Coimbatore-641043, Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail: drpb12@yahoo.co.in or rajahand@gmail.com
Thai
Credit:
Dr.Jeeranan Rapipong, Dr.Montana Buntragulpoontawee, Dr.Siam Tongprasert, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Contact:Dr.Jeeranan Rapipong
E-mail: jeeranan.rapipong@yahoo.com
Turkish
Credit and contact:
Çiğdem Öksüz, Pt, PhD, Hacettepe University Faculty of Health Sciences Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: cigdemoksuz@yahoo.com
Xhosa
Credit and contact:
Amy Menegaldo, Occupational Therapist (BSc OT UCT), Livingstone Tertiary Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa
E-mail: ap.menegaldo@gmail.com
Yoruba
Credit:
Adesola C. Odole, Nse. A. Odunaiya, Chidinma F. Mbaike and A.A. Akinseloyin
Contact:Adesola Odole, Department of Physiotherapy, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
E-mail: adesola_odole@yahoo.com