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== Additional Info == | == 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. | ||
*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 == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||