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This paper reviews several commonly used constraints, including inner constraints, internal constraints, kinematic constraints, and minimum constraints. Moreover, according to their observation equations and normal equations, the similarities and differences between them are summarized. Finally, we discuss in detail the influence of internal constraints on the scale of VLBI long-term solutions. The results show that there is a strong correlation between the scale parameter and the translation parameter introduced by the combination model at the Institut National de l\u2019Information G\u00e9ographique et Foresti\u00e8re (IGN), and internal constraints force these two groups of parameters to meet certain conditions, which will lead to the coupling of scale and translation parameters and disturbing the scale information in VLBI observations. 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