Surveyors, help more advice needed, re contractures & Section G

[Kathy Archibald]

Can someone direct me to generally accepted definition for contractures.  I always thought contractures were irreversible except by surgery.  If we can assist a resident to open his hand, even though the resident can not do it voluntarily due to CVA, I would not have said the resident has a contracture, however the surveyor says no, it is a contracture if the resident can not do it himself.  I understand it is a functional limitation, but not a contracture, or am I splitting hairs???? HELP!