PRAGUE — A team from the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, U.S.A., found that performing a proximal femoral extension osteotomy was effective in cases of hip flexion contracture in ...

OA is a 78-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department with complaints of right hip pain. She fell in her apartment 2 weeks prior to evaluation and although the pain was described as ...

The patient was in her early 20s, and she had severe rheumatoid arthritis in her hips. It had gotten so bad that she had to pull out of college. She had developed what we call hip flexion contracture, ...

A contracture is when your muscles, tendons, or other soft tissues harden or stiffen around a joint. That can make it difficult to move your fingers, ankles, and other body parts. It also can leave ...

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 ...