The treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / Robert W. Lovett and James Warren Sever.

  • Robert W. Lovett
Date:
1911
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Credit: The treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / Robert W. Lovett and James Warren Sever. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The characteristics of organic lateral curvature are definite curves, either single or double—more often the latter—and much more marked than in the postural class, in some cases running to extreme deformity. There is always a rotation of the vertebrae or horizontal twist Fig. 3.—Patient in jacket shown in Figure 2. Note window on concave side. Jacket reinforced by steel strips. at the site of the curve, and in bending -forward, with the trunk horizontal and the arms hanging, there is always to be seen a more or less marked upward bunch or prominence in the affected region on the side to which the spine curves, that is, on the convex side of the lateral
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