Not only are the principal flexors of the fingers and of the thumb long muscles, but they remain quite distinct from one another through their whole length.
I have seen the flexors of the toes of the affected limb violently cramped, and in one case there was agonizing cramp of the gastrocnemius.
Many fully developed cases of contraction of the tendons of the carpalflexors are observed where the condition has become established gradually and no lameness has resulted from tendinitis or carpitis.
In the first instance, for example, the flexorsof the carpus and the superior check ligament assisted by the flexors of the phalanges constitute the inhibitory apparatus.
In the carpal region, the flexorsof the phalanges are contained together in the carpal sheath, and this is the principal theca in the carpal region.
Flexion of the elbow is avoided because contraction of the biceps brachii (flexor brachii) or the extensors, which are antagonists of the flexors of the carpus, tenses the carpal flexors and pain is thereby increased.
The superficial flexor tendon (perforatus) alone, is the one usually contracted, and while bothflexors are at times involved, this rarely occurs.
Inflammation of the muscular or tendinous parts of the carpal flexors, does not occur as frequently as does inflammation of the flexors of the extremity.
The extensors and flexors of all the fingers and the thumb, and the abductor of the thumb showed paresis.
Lasègue’s sign could not be tested for on account of the contracture of the flexors of leg on thigh.
Lying down, the man could move, though slowly, his lower extremities in every way, nor was there any diminution in the strength of his flexors and extensors.
Slight electrical hyperexcitability of flexors with feeble galvanic current; excitation of the extensors not associated with any contractions of the antagonist muscles.
Threshold lower for flexors on the affected side in the forearm.
The muscles of the limbs were held in great tension, the flexors and extensors being alternately affected.
Another surgeon was now found to perform a tenotomy on the flexors of the leg and put the patient in a plaster cast to correct the flexion and immobilize in extension.
The disorder spread to the flexors of the fingers and the thumb muscles.
Examination showed a slight paralysis of the extensors and flexors of hand and fingers, and of the hand muscles.
But at the same time it extends the first phalanges, to produce a certain tension of the flexors of the digits, and thus enable the latter to act with greater efficacy, with a minimum of contraction.
The tendons of the flexors are placed on a kind of muscular bed formed by the union of the muscles of the region, but, moreover, from the point of view of external form, these tendons are not of very great importance.
On its palmar aspect are found only the tendons of the flexors of the digits, and as these tendons are large, and the hand long, they give origin to external forms which it is necessary to examine.
It is enough to carry the first phalanges forcibly into a state of extension; the third phalanges then become flexed, quite spontaneously, by the tension of the tendons of the flexors which are inserted into them.
The flexors then reach the fetlock, and occupy the groove formed by the peculiar arrangement of the two large sesamoid bones.
As to the muscles, there is a short flexor, a short extensor, and a peronaeus longus, while the tendons of the long flexors of the great toe and of the other toes are united together and with an accessory fleshy bundle.
Not only are the principal flexors of the fingers and of the thumb long muscles, but they remain quite distinct from one another throughout their whole length.
It is only an entire muscular layer of flexors and extensors which is the pattern of the heart.
The flexors are the strongest and are placed in front, the extensors lie behind.
Flexors and extensors occur in pairs; because the osseous system is in pairs.
Hill[177] reports a case of a child aged five years who had been hemiplegic since he was two and a half years old, and who developed paralysis of the flexors of the ankle in each leg.
Now, if the flexor tendons are cut and the toe straightened the atrophic extensor muscles will not hold it in that position, and when the flexors grow together the old condition will reassert itself.
Any irregular sensory or motor impulses to the knee-joint or to the muscles of the thigh will disturb the absolute equilibrium of the flexors and extensors and will make standing painful or even impossible.
The yielding of the arch lengthens the foot and puts the tendons of all the flexorson the stretch.
This over-stretches the extensor muscles and tempts the unbalanced flexors to contract.
He may, however, regain some power of flexing the forearm when it is fully pronated, the extensors of the wrist becoming feeble flexors of the elbow.
Voluntary power returns earlier in the flexors than in the extensors, and flexion of the toes is almost invariably the earliest voluntary movement possible.
Jones divides the tendo Achillis and the flexors of the toes subcutaneously, and maintains the dorsiflexion by excising an oval flap of skin from the front of the ankle.
Tubby has devised an operation for converting the pronator radii teres into a supinator, and Robert Jones another in which the flexors of the carpus are made to take the place of the extensors.
The plantar flexors and invertors distort the foot into the equino-varus attitude.
The flexors of the toes, the tibialis posterior, and the peroneus longus are shortened to a less degree.
The most common cause for this unsoundness is inflammation of the muscles and tendons of the flexors of the digit.
Certain cases may be greatly benefited by sectioning the tendons of the external and middle flexors of the metacarpi.
There is as yet no satisfactory evidence as to where the anterior ends of the flexors were attached.
Indeed, the tenuity of the ventral membrane is such as to preclude the possibility of enrollment by the use of muscles of that sort, while powerful longitudinal flexors could have been anchored to cephalon and pygidium.
Possible preservations of extensors andflexors in Ceraurus.
Since the majority of trilobites had the power of enrollment, and seem also to have used the pygidia in swimming, the flexors must have been important muscles.
The Palmaris is reckon'd among the Flexors of the Wrist, although situated in the Palm of the Hand.
The three Flexors or Bending Muscles of the Wrist are the Cubitaeus Internus, the Radiaeus Internus, and the Palmaris.
The flexors enable us to raise the foot from the ground; the extensors set the foot down again in the place desired.
The flexors enable us to close the hand, the extensors to open it again.
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