Sentence examples for cause traction from inspiring English sources

These nodules may progress slowly to fibrous cords or bands that attach to and cause traction on the underlying flexor tendons, resulting in flexion contractures of the digits.

The researchers say that these hairstyles, particularly because they're maintained for long periods of time, cause "traction" as they pull on the hair, and that stress may be contributing to the hair loss and scarring.

One is that insertion of an instrument may cause traction on the adjacent vitreous resulting in a retinal tear along the posterior border of the vitreous base intraoperatively.

1 PDR is a wound healing-like response, in which newly formed vessels may progress to form fibrovascular tissue, which can cause traction on the retina, resulting in retinal detachment and blindness.

Over-stretching of the knees during medial hamstrings lengthening tenotomy is known to cause traction injury to the sciatic nerve, which may cause long-lasting pain and dysestesia in the feet that mimic or induce CRPS.

Too much braid tension can cause traction alopecia (a specific type of hair loss), and it might be permanent.

For postdural puncture headache, the pain mechanism is thought to be secondary to cerebrospinal fluid leak that exceeds the production rate, causing traction on the meninges and parasympathetic mediated reflex vasodilatation of the meningeal vessels.

Neck movement causes traction on the dura and leads to generation of pain [ 56].

This suggests that focal attachment of the ERM, causing traction only in some retinal points, protected most of the retinal tissue from structural changes in the central area.

6 VMT was defined as a vitreo-macular adhesion that involved the foveal region from the posterior hyaloid face causing traction and distortion of the central macula.

Additionally, the vitreous may become immobilized within the sclerotomy site during withdrawal of an instrument causing traction and a retinal break along the posterior border of the vitreous base postoperatively.