Treatise on orthopedic surgery / by Edward H. Bradford and Robert W. Lovett.

  • Bradford, Edward G. (Edward Green), 1848-1928.
Date:
1905
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    Goldthwait' and R. T. Taylor have employed the principle by means of two moxablc stands, the former employing two parallel steel rods connecting the uprights as a support to the lower part of the back, which are removed after the jacket has hardened. R. T. Taylor ' has combined the arrangement with a mechanism for 08.—Frame for Applying Jacket with Patient Recumbent upon the Back. (Metz] Goldthwait.) a jxill and a counter-pull. The jacket is applied in the usual way and the patient placed in the desired position. Jackets Applied with the Patient Sitting.—The patient may be seated during the application of the jacket if it is desired to prevent lordosis in the lumbar region. In disease of the lumbar region, since lordosis is desirable to sepa- Fin. 69.—Portable Frame for Applying Plaster Jacket. (Metzger-Goldthwait.) rate the lumbar \-ertcbrce, suspension is not necessary. The jacket can be applied with the patient steadied and the back arched forward to secure exaggerated lordosis. R. T. Taylor has applied jackets for disease of the spine with the patient seated, using an arrangement which can be readily understood by the accompanying illustration (Fig. 70). Tn adult cases of caries of the spine in the upper dorsal or cervical regions with slight kyphus, jackets can be ap]Dlied with the patients seated, with the slight correction afforded by head-sling traction. 'Trans. Am. Ortli. Assn.. xi.. S9. Johns Hopkins liulletin. xii,. i ig. Johns Hopkins IJulletin, February. 1S95. No. 45. Trans. Am. Orth. Assn . vol. xii., p. I ig. 5