Extensor tendon injuries may require operative intervention, depending on the complexity of the injury and the zone of the hand involved.[5] For treatment of injuries to specific zones of the hand, see Technique. The goal of repair is to restore tendon continuity and function.
Nutrition Month is a special health awareness campaign pursuant to Presidential Decree 491 or the Nutrition Act of the Philippines. This event is held in the month July of every year. But in other countries, it is scheduled in different month. Like the United States, Nutrition Month is held every March.
The Philippines sit astride the typhoon belt, and the country suffers an annual onslaught of dangerous storms from July through October. These are especially hazardous for northern and eastern Luzon and the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, but Manila gets devastated periodically as well.