Available Translations

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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 (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

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