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Contractures occur early in the course of neuromuscular diseases. They may even be present at birth as in the case of congenital myotonic dystrophy and congenital myopathies. Up till now, contractures were regarded as an exclusion criterion in spinal muscular atrophy (type I SMA), but recently a deletion of the survival motor neuron gene was found in some cases of type I SMA [1, 2]. When multiple joint contractures are present at birth, the term Arthrogryposis is used [3].
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Chabrol, B., Carrelet, P., Bollini, G. (1999). Therapy of Muscular Contractures. In: Serratrice, G., Pouget, J., Azulay, JP. (eds) Exercise Intolerance and Muscle Contracture. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0855-0_23
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