A treatise on orthopedic surgery . R. Tunstall Taylors apparatus for the application of the plaster jacket in therecumbent posture, consisting of an adjustable back support and pelvic rest con-nected by a sliding bar. (See Fig. 53.) The patient lies on two malleable steel bars fitted to the lum-bar region reaching only to the apex of the deformity. Theplaster bandages forming the lower part of the jacket having•been applied the upper portion of the trunk is allowed to sinkdownward to the point of toleration and the jacket is then com-pleted. The steel bars which have prevented the upward arch-
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . R. Tunstall Taylors apparatus for the application of the plaster jacket in therecumbent posture, consisting of an adjustable back support and pelvic rest con-nected by a sliding bar. (See Fig. 53.) The patient lies on two malleable steel bars fitted to the lum-bar region reaching only to the apex of the deformity. Theplaster bandages forming the lower part of the jacket having•been applied the upper portion of the trunk is allowed to sinkdownward to the point of toleration and the jacket is then com-pleted. The steel bars which have prevented the upward arch-ing of the lumbar region of the spine are then withdrawn. The Fig. The Taylor appliance in use, showing the hyperextension of the spine. Theplaster jacket having been applied, the back rest is removed by pressing thebandages from side to side or by enlarging the opening. If desirable, the de-fect is then concealed by a turn of plaster bandage. Metzger apparatus, of which that last described is an adaptation,which jDermits longitudinal traction as well as direct leverage,is shown in Fig;. 55. 90 OBTHOPEDIC SUEGEEY. The Application of the Jacket to Patients Who Have Been Treatedon the Stretcher Frame.—A satisfactory method of applying aplaster jacket to young subjects, when the deformity has been Fig. 54.
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