Leprosy: mobility exercise

Mobility exercise This slide shows a physiotherapist extending the fingers of a 3-year-old girl with leprosy. This is a passive exercise to help maintain mobility in clawed fingers. Notice that the girl's wrist is flexed due to shortening of the long flexor tendons; these also need to be stretched. It is important that a child's parents know how to do the exercises so that they can perform them each day in order to prevent adaptive shortening of soft tissues.