A treatise on orthopaedic surgery / by Royal Whitman.

  • Royal Whitman
Date:
1904
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Credit: A treatise on orthopaedic surgery / by Royal Whitman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    creased hollowness (lordosis) of the back (Figs. 10 and 12); thus the prominent abdomen may first attract attention. The walk is careful, and a peculiar tip-toeing step, the feet being slightly inverted to avoid the jar of striking the heels, is often observed ; this is, however, not a peculiarity of disease of this region alone, but is rather an evidence that the spine is sensitive to slight jars. More characteristic of lumbar disease is a peculiar swagger or Pres 10: Fre, 11). Disease of the upper lumbar region before The same patient (Fig. 10) five years the stage of deformity, showing abnormal later, showing deformity. lordosis. waddle, explained in part by the exaggerated lordosis, and in part by the loss of the accommodative, balancing motion of the lumbar spine, as the weight falls alternately on each limb in walking. The increased lumbar lordosis, so characteristic of the early stage of the disease, is capable of several explanations. It is partly voluntary ; as bending the body forward brings pressure
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