| Pain relief and frequent passive movements prevent contractures and joint ankylosis. |
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| Thin extremities with arthrogrypotic fourth finger contractures bilaterally were also noted. |
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| If more than four contractures there may be a problem if the Shih Tzu puppy has not been whelped. |
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| During the immobilization of a fracture, all nonimmobilized parts must be moved to avoid stiffness, muscle atrophy and joint contractures. |
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| Specialist equipment such as splints, callipers and braces can help with paralysis and contractures. |
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| Knee height calipers are of limited use in patients with contractures, which includes many rehabilitation patients. |
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| Physical and occupational therapy should be initiated to reduce long-term disability from scarring and contractures. |
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| Physiatrics on the other hand, is a readily available modality than can restore much useful function and reverse the contractures. |
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| He is also receiving daily physical therapy to prevent muscle contractures and to help maintain some strength. |
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| We present a 6-year-old girl with premature aging associated with mild myopathy, displaying muscle weakness, joint contractures and hyporeflexia. |
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| He has contractures of his elbows, shoulders and knees, and a marked kyphosis of his spine. |
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| Motor symptoms vary from complete paralysis to tremors, tics, contractures, or convulsions. |
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| Evaluation of the wrist should begin with identifying erythema, swelling, masses, skin lesions, muscle atrophy, contractures, scars, or other obvious deformities. |
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| Physical therapy is directed at preventing atrophy and contractures, and is particularly necessary in patients with calcinosis and muscle involvement. |
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| Hemophilia is characterized by joint contractures, limited range of motion and chronic pain. |
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| Muscle stretching constitutes the basic treatment for spasticity at all stages of the disease, even the advanced ones when the stretching essentially aims to prevent contractures. |
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| These are known as muscular contractures which should disappear after a few days with rest, good rehydration, a balanced food intake with mineral salts and application of the Decontracture programme. |
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| Available through hospitals and clinics, orthoses help to support your joints in certain positions when your muscles weaken, prevent contractures if spasticity is a problem, enhance comfort, and aid in function. |
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| Muscle contractures of the chest wall may cause alveolar hypoventilation. |
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| If there is weakness of the muscle in the hand, passive stretching and active exercises will help prevent contractures and may lead to some strengthening. |
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| The clinical features do not differ markedly from those of other mild forms of progressive muscular dystrophy with the exception of finger contractures which are sometimes suggestive of the diagnosis. |
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| The fish also exhibited contractures of the pectoral fins and abnormal eye positioning suggestive of extropia. |
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| Moreover, some patients had short necks with contractures while others had long necks. |
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| Chronic cases are usually associated with muscle induration, atrophy, and contractures after many painful crises. |
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| Double opposing rectangular advancement is a new and alternate local flap design which can be used in the treatment of wide and linear postburn scar contractures. |
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| We have found the external fixator method to be helpful in treating severe, fixed and complex postburn contractures of hand where previous surgery had failed. |
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| The subcutaneous pedicle rhomboid flap is a relatively new technique in the treatment of linear, wide or quadratic postburn scar contractures with two or more contracture lines. |
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| Oligohydramnios has also been reported, presumably resulting from decreased fetal renal function, associated with fetal limb contractures, craniofacial deformation, and hypoplastic lung development. |
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| Patients with hysterical symptoms complained of acute shortness of breath, paralyses, and contractures of limbs for which no physical cause could be found. |
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| Such scars often require additional plastic surgery sometimes years after the initial skin grafting to release contractures over joints and to achieve acceptable cosmetic results. |
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| These continual and diffuse muscle pains are the result of chronic contractures in which acids and toxins accumulate, irritating the nerves and causing pain. |
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| Irreducible contractures require surgical release of the pulley, while reducible contractures may be treated by all three methods. |
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| The 63-year-old woman has multiple sclerosis and, at admission, suffered from pressure sores and contractures. |
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| The scars are not only cosmetic deformities, which are potentially psychologically stressful, but may also cause pruritis, pain, contractures and hinder movement. |
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| There are several reasons for focusing on contractures in this study. |
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| Joint hyperlaxity, arachnodactyly, pecus excavatum or carinatum, scoliosis and contractures of the feet are seen in LDS patients, and are also common in Marfan syndrome. |
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