• Aponeurozės palm contracture (contracture Diupitreno)

  Filed under Columns of the locomotor system diseases
  November 25

  The disease process affects hiperplazmijos aponeurozės palm area and the scar stretching in the direction parallel to the fingers lenkiamiesiems muscles. Initially, the surface of the palm, near the transverse sulcus, there is a solid lump. Later, after the palm skin revealed a stiff longitudinal scar, gradually formed a bright finger flexor contracture. Contracture gradually solidified, and the process involved and the articular joints (both fingers and joints and tarpfalanginių) capsules. Infringements of IV and V fingers.

  Conservative treatment method gives a positive effect only at the initial stage of the disease. For such patients receiving electrophoresis procedure with lithium or iodine, a complex application as well as massage and therapeutic exercise. Before massaging the procedures recommended in the heat. Therapeutic gymnastics is most effective when performed in hot water, the active or passive movements of the affected fingers lay.

  Massage and therapeutic gymnastics in particular need of plastic surgery (removal of the palm aponeurozės), they are subject to post-operative period. If massage is combined with electrophoresis, is a first for massage, and then - electrophoresis.

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