Joint contractures decrease the patient's ability to walk, but usually other parts of the body compensate the affected joint contractures. When we restore the gait performance in paraplegic patients by means of functional electrical stimulation, however, we cannot expect complications of compensation. A computer simulation was done to clarify how the contractures affect the gait pattern when no...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the epidemiology of and surgical results from treating elbow fracture-dislocations, including only the cases in which dislocation is associated with fracture of the coronoid process and the radial head (terrible triad). METHODS Nineteen patients were evaluated: 12 males and 7 females. The medical records were analyzed to gather data about the mechanism of injury, fractu...

OBJECTIVES To compare collagenase injections and surgery (fasciectomy) for Dupuytren's contracture (DC) regarding actual total direct treatment costs and short-term outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Orthopaedic department of a regional hospital in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Patients aged 65 years or older with previously untreated DC of 30° or greater in the metacarpophalange...

The movements of calcium in muscle have been followed during contraction and contracture to test the hypothesis that the release of calcium from the surface of the muscle membrane during stimulation initiates the contractile mechanism. Nitrate ion increases the calcium influx during a single twitch and during potassium contracture, and also increases the tension developed. The increased entry o...

Background/Aim Dupuytren’s disease is a progressive disease of the palmar and digital fascial structures, with functional limitations. There are no clear recommendations about the optimal time of surgical repair, concerning the hand impairment. The aim of our study was to investigate the relation between finger’s contracture degree and success of surgical treatment of the Dupuytren's disease. ...

There are many problems in the anesthetic management of patients with scar contracture. In this case, a 41-year-old male with severe scar contracture on his face, neck, anterior chest, and both shoulders underwent surgery for resurfacing with flaps. We tried to awake fiberoptic orotracheal intubation with GlideScope® Video laryngoscope guide after surgical release of contracture under local ane...

buthotus schach finally, according to our results venom as well as fractions f4 and f6 act mostly prejunctionally on ach release. more attempt is carrying out to study their effects on ion channel activities. is one of the most dangerous scorpions in tropical part of iran. the effects of its crude venom at 1, 3, 10 µg/ml and its obtained fractions by gel filtrations were investigated on neuromu...

The major complications of deltoid contracture frequently encountered are abduction contracture, winging of the scapula, humeral head flattening and shoulder dislocation (Bhattacharyya 1966; Chatterjee and Gupta 1983). To our knowledge acromium hyperplasia has not been a reported complication of deltoid contracture in the English-language literature. We encountered a patient who had bilateral a...

Contractures develop in sheep atrial trabeculae if Tyrode's solution is rapidly replaced by a solution containing elevated potassium, reduced sodium, or both. Two phases of the contracture can be identified on the basis of differences in physiological behavior: a rapid and transient phase that predominates during the first few seconds of the contracture, and a slowly developed phase that is res...