History
It is named after Dr. Richard von Volkmann (1830 - 1889), the 19th century German doctor who first described it, in a paper on "non-Infective Ischemic conditions of various fascial compartments in the extremities". Because the contracture occurred at the same time as the paralysis, he considered a nerve etiology to be unlikely.
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