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Treatment procedure that uses a pulling force to prevent muscle spasm and to keep the joint stationary?

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What is the medical term meaning Treatment procedure that uses a pulling force to reduce muscle spasm or to keep a joint stationary or to hold the ends of broken bones in place?

Traction


A treatment procedure that uses a pulling force to prevent or reduce muscle spasm to keep a joint or other body part stationary or to hold the ends of broken bones in place?

traction


A treatment procedure that uses a pulling force to prevent or reduce muscle spasm's to keep a joint or other body part stationery or to hold the ends of broken bones in place?

gravitation


What is treatment procedure that uses a pulling force to prevent or reduice muscle spasm to keep a joint or other body part staionary or hold broken bones in place?

The treatment procedure you are referring to is traction. Traction involves applying a pulling force to the body part, such as a joint or bone, in order to reduce muscle spasms, immobilize the area, or position broken bones correctly for healing. It is commonly used in orthopedic settings to treat fractures, dislocations, and certain musculoskeletal conditions.


What is cyclobenzepine?

Cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride is a muscle relaxant, prescribed for short term treatment of muscle spasm


What you call when a muscle contracts involuntarily?

cardiac and smooth


What massage technique can help relieve muscle spasm?

The recommended way of relieving a muscle spasm is a muscle-energy technique called reciprocal inhibition. What you do is have the person with the spasm contract the antagonist muscle(s) related to the ones in spasm. Works like a charm.


What is loss of normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?

What is loss of the normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?


What is a sentence for spasm?

He ran so far his leg muscle went into a spasm.


What triggers a spasm?

a muscle spasm occurs when the muscles have been tense for a long period of time and then you make a sudden movement and it causes it to spasm. I have suffered with muscle spasm's in my back for about a year now due to a back injury and this is what my doctor has told me, it can be treated with diazapam to relax the muscle's.


Explain a muscle spasm in terms of recruitment of muscle fibers?

A muscle spasm is the spontaneous recruitment of muscle fibers. The resulting contraction is usually painful, but it typically resolves very quickly.