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contracture

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In pathology, a contracture is a shortening of muscles, tendons, skin, and nearby soft tissues that causes the joints to shorten and become very stiff, preventing normal movement. A contracture is usually permanent, but less commonly can be temporary (such as in McArdle disease), or resolve over time but reoccur later in life (such as in Bethlem myopathy 1). It is usually in response to prolonged hypertonic spasticity in a concentrated muscle area, such as is seen in the tightest muscles of people with conditions like spastic cerebral palsy, but can also be due to the congenital abnormal development of muscles and connective tissue in the womb. Contractures develop usually when normally elastic tissues such as muscles or tendons are replaced by inelastic tissues (fibrosis)...
Related Codes (63)
Code
Description
Billable
Details
M24.5Contracture of joint
Type 1 Excludes (3)Type 2 Excludes (1)
M24.50Contracture, unspecified joint
M24.51Contracture, shoulder
M24.511Contracture, right shoulder
M24.512Contracture, left shoulder
M24.519Contracture, unspecified shoulder
M24.52Contracture, elbow
M24.521Contracture, right elbow
M24.522Contracture, left elbow
M24.529Contracture, unspecified elbow

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