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Abstract
Post-traumatic stiff elbow: therapeutic exercise
published in November - December 2017 - in Il Fisioterapista - issue n.6
Annalisa Corradini, Stefano Sorrentino

Elbow stiffness is a very common complication in upper limb traumatology, often associated with comorbidities and major disability. The loss of flexion is the most important functional problem. In conservative treatment, static stretching exercises or exercises of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation have been found to be useful.