Contracture management
- Maintain/stretch soft tissues
- Relieve pain
- Improve function
- Promote independence
Biomechanical principles
- Identify tissues under increased strain
- Apply forces to reduce pathologic loading to those tissues
- Apply forces to increase chance of creep in shortened connective tissues
- Create rotational equilibrium
- Maximize sagittal and coronal plane biomechanical function
- Realign Ground Reaction Force
- Prevention of excessive range of joint motion
Page last reviewed: 05 May 2020
