The treatment of fractures . racture, causing what ap-pears on standing as a falsegenu recurvatum. {ci) The shortening of theinjured leg is prevented by asufficiently heavy weight forextension. This weight canbe approximately but not ac-curately determined. Ordin-arily, in an adult fifteen ortwenty pounds are needed tohold the fragments in properposition. Comparative meas-urement of the legs from an-terior superior spinous pro-cess to the malleolus shouldbe made regularly every otherday, and the measurementsrecorded during the first twoweeks of immobilization andthe extension weight corre7spon
The treatment of fractures . racture, causing what ap-pears on standing as a falsegenu recurvatum. {ci) The shortening of theinjured leg is prevented by asufficiently heavy weight forextension. This weight canbe approximately but not ac-curately determined. Ordin-arily, in an adult fifteen ortwenty pounds are needed tohold the fragments in properposition. Comparative meas-urement of the legs from an-terior superior spinous pro-cess to the malleolus shouldbe made regularly every otherday, and the measurementsrecorded during the first twoweeks of immobilization andthe extension weight corre7spondingly adjusted. (/;) In order to prevent anyoutward bowing of the thigh,the thigh and leg should beslightly abducted after the apparatus is applied, so that the extension is made with the limbin this abducted position (see Fig. 404). (c) In order to prevent the thigh from rotating outward belowthe fracture and thus carrying the leg and foot with it,—to pre-vent, in other words, eversion of the foot,—a bandage six inches. V.;: Fig. 404.— Showing; the necessity of ab-ducting the injured leg: in thigh fracture. Indotted line is shown the position likely to re-sult from neglect of this abduction. 294 FRACTURES OF THE FEMUR wide should be fastened by pins below the calf of the leg to theposterior part of the bandage or ham-splint, and brought up onthe outer side of the leg and fastened to the long outside splintor to the cradle above. The leg meanwhile is held in the cor-
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