Healio

Stretching exercises, gaining extension key after treatment of fixed flexion contractures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a fixed flexion contracture should be carefully evaluated and educated on stretching exercises and ...
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Posture improves after femoral extension osteotomy for hip flexion contractures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PRAGUE — Flexion contracture in the hips of pediatric patients due to spastic cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis and ...
Nature

Comparison of muscular and articular factors in the progression of contractures after spinal cord injury in rats

Joint contractures are a common complication of spinal cord injury (SCI), 1, 2, 3 and are characterized by limitations in the passive range of motion (ROM) of affected joints. 4, 5 Contractures limit ...
Medscape

American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons Issues Forefoot Disorders Practice Guideline

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. March 4, 2009 — The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) has issued new treatment guidelines on management of common forefoot ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Thickening and Contraction of the Palmar Fascia (Dupuytren's Contracture) Associated with Alcoholism and Hepatic Cirrhosis

BARON Guillaume Dupuytren, 1 in 1832, attributed the hand deformity that now bears his name to retraction of the palmar aponeurosis, and an extensive literature has since appeared concerning its ...