. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Downward and forward disloca-tion of femur. (Cooper.) Keduction of downward and forwarddislocation of femur. (Bigelow.) be reduced by making the manipulations appropriate forthe reduction of the latter dislocation. Kocher, in the reduction of these dislocations, recom-mends the following manipulations : 1. The leg should beflexed upon the thigh and the thigh carried up to a rightangle with the pelvis, maintaining abduction and external DISLOCATIONS OF THE HIP. 441 rotation, to relax the Y-ligament. 2. Traction shouldnext be made in the line
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Downward and forward disloca-tion of femur. (Cooper.) Keduction of downward and forwarddislocation of femur. (Bigelow.) be reduced by making the manipulations appropriate forthe reduction of the latter dislocation. Kocher, in the reduction of these dislocations, recom-mends the following manipulations : 1. The leg should beflexed upon the thigh and the thigh carried up to a rightangle with the pelvis, maintaining abduction and external DISLOCATIONS OF THE HIP. 441 rotation, to relax the Y-ligament. 2. Traction shouldnext be made in the line of the shaft of the femur, torender the posterior part of the capsule tense. 3. Out-ward rotation is then made, which, twisting the tense pos-terior portion of the capsule and the outer branch of theY-ligament, brings the head ofthe bone upward and backwardinto the acetabulum. Forward and Upward Dislocationof the Head of the Femur.—In thisvariety of dislocation, which isvery rare, the head of the bonerests upon the pubis; this formof displacement
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