The treatment of fractures . Fig. 321.—Colles fracture. Cravat slingholding wrist improperly. Hand pro-nated. Fig. 322.—Colles fracture. Cravat slingholding wrist properly. Hand semisupin-ated. Wrist resting upon ulnar side withhand unsupported. mm 1 M m- I i^*--- Fig. 323.—Right Colles fracture in an old woman. Splints applied for five weeks withoutremoval. Note deformity and flattening of hand and forearm. The fingers and wrist arestiff and swollen. Left hand is normal. third or fourth week the splint may be removed and the wrist besupported by a wooden dorsal pad (see Figs. 319, 320) two in
The treatment of fractures . Fig. 321.—Colles fracture. Cravat slingholding wrist improperly. Hand pro-nated. Fig. 322.—Colles fracture. Cravat slingholding wrist properly. Hand semisupin-ated. Wrist resting upon ulnar side withhand unsupported. mm 1 M m- I i^*--- Fig. 323.—Right Colles fracture in an old woman. Splints applied for five weeks withoutremoval. Note deformity and flattening of hand and forearm. The fingers and wrist arestiff and swollen. Left hand is normal. third or fourth week the splint may be removed and the wrist besupported by a wooden dorsal pad (see Figs. 319, 320) two incheslong and the width of the wrist, and by a palmar radial pad ofcompress cloth and strips of adhesive plaster about two inches 24O FRACTURES OF THE BOiNES OF THE FOREARM wide. The middle of the plaster should come at the lineof the break in the bone. After the fourth week all padding-may be removed, and the wrist supported by a simple fingers and hand may be used at this time. After theremoval of the spli
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