serial stretch orthoses

serial stretch orthoses
a series of static orthoses to keep a body part with a flexion contracture on gentle passive stretch; at each therapy session the joint is extended as far as it will comfortably go and a splint is shaped to hold it at that angle; eventually an optimal position of extension is reached.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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