Leprosy: mobility exercise

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Leprosy: mobility exercise. The Leprosy Mission International. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mobility exercise This slide shows a physiotherapist extending the fingers of a 3-year-old girl with leprosy. This is a passive exercise to help maintain mobility in clawed fingers. Notice that the girl's wrist is flexed due to shortening of the long flexor tendons; these also need to be stretched. It is important that a child's parents know how to do the exercises so that they can perform them each day in order to prevent adaptive shortening of soft tissues.

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