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Universities of Miami and Southern California
Past President of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons,
University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, Florida, 33101, USA,
Universities of Miami and Southern California, USA
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University of Miami
Miami, Florida, USA
In this Chapter details are given regarding the importance of preventing recurvatum deformities from the holding the extremity in extension, as well as harmful equinus contractures from holding of the ankle in a that manner. Recognition that manually gained length in axially unstable fractures is very likely to be lost as muscle or weight bearing forces are introduced.