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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study was done to evaluate the change of medial-lateral gap in flexion and extension after posterior ...

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 ...

Camptodactyly (MIM 114200) is a digit deformity characterised by permanent flexion contracture of fifth fingers at the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints. The sporadic cases are common but a ...

IN CIVILIAN life, acute suppurative tenosynovitis and trauma to the joint phalanges are the most common causes of loss of flexor function in the hand. Loss of flexor function means loss of the "hook ...

To illustrate this process, consider the dysfunction of the right knee of the young man (SR) with cerebral palsy spastic diplegia (Video 3). One can readily appreciate from the video presentation that ...

This article was published 14/07/2015 (3985 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Tendons and ligaments are essential; they help maintain stability and flexibility. This is most ...

Off-loading of the affected area is the standard of care and commonly results in healing the noninfected neuropathic ulcer. Methods of off-loading can be broadly categorized as external ...

Heidi Clavet and colleagues recently reported the results of a study in a much-needed area of research that receives little attention.1, 2 Conservative treatment of contractures is time consuming and ...