The comparative assessment of EMG-characteristics of the muscles of the arm and forearm while using different methods of treatment of the elbow contractures

The use of the developed at RISC "RTO" techniques for treatment of the elbow contractures with a device leads to the moderate decrease of the functional characteristics of arm and forearm muscles which was reflected in the system of assessments of their voluntary and evoked bioelectrical activity. The most marked decrease of EMG-measurements of the muscles being tested was noted in patients who were subjected to arthrotomy with subsequent redressment of the elbow with the Ilizarov fixator and also corrective extra-articular osteotomy of the bones forming the elbow with further osteosynthesis using the Ilizarov fixator. The recovery of the functional potentials of the muscles attending to the elbow is completed by the end of the firs year after the end of treatment.