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== Additional Info ==

A muscle contracture is a tightening or shortening of muscles. It causes joint stiffness and can happen in any joint. You may get contractures from having to stay in bed for a long time. For example, it might happen when you have a chronic illness, a serious injury, or surgery with a long recovery time.

*A muscle contracture is a tightening or shortening of muscles. It causes joint stiffness and can happen in any joint. You may get contractures from having to stay in bed for a long time. For example, it might happen when you have a chronic illness, a serious injury, or surgery with a long recovery time.

'''Excludes:'''

* true joint contractures - '''[[Joint disorder, nontraumatic NOS]]'''

** Much more rarely, there can be a Joint Contracture, which is a tightening of the tissues of the joint capsule itself (separate from muscles that insert on joint structures). We have '''NOT''' included joint contracture as a separate entity, but if present you should use '''[[Joint disorder, nontraumatic NOS]]''' for it.

== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==

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== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==

*[[Joint NOS, contracture]]

== Related CCI Codes ==

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 == Additional Info ==
-A muscle contracture is a tightening or shortening of muscles. It causes joint stiffness and can happen in any joint. You may get contractures from having to stay in bed for a long time. For example, it might happen when you have a chronic illness, a serious injury, or surgery with a long recovery time.
+*A muscle contracture is a tightening or shortening of muscles. It causes joint stiffness and can happen in any joint. You may get contractures from having to stay in bed for a long time. For example, it might happen when you have a chronic illness, a serious injury, or surgery with a long recovery time.
+'''Excludes:'''
+* true joint contractures - '''[[Joint disorder, nontraumatic NOS]]'''
+** Much more rarely, there can be a Joint Contracture, which is a tightening of the tissues of the joint capsule itself (separate from muscles that insert on joint structures).  We have '''NOT''' included joint contracture as a separate entity, but if present you should use '''[[Joint disorder, nontraumatic NOS]]''' for it.
 == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
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 == Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
-*[[Joint NOS, contracture]]
 == Related CCI Codes ==
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