Lectures on orthopedic surgery . i&^. Fig. 233.—Adolescent rickets, showing the Thomas knockknee brace applied. in the treatment of the same deformity in infantilerickets; at the hip, support should be given by someform of perineal crutch to relieve the femoral neck,weakened by disease and at a disadvantage from its 291 right-angled position, from weight-bearing. When thedisease has ended, the deformity at the knee can becorrected by osteoclasis or osteotomy as infantile rick-ets. The true shortening from coxa vara may be onlypartially corrected by osteotomy in the trochantericregion, but the
Lectures on orthopedic surgery . i&^. Fig. 233.—Adolescent rickets, showing the Thomas knockknee brace applied. in the treatment of the same deformity in infantilerickets; at the hip, support should be given by someform of perineal crutch to relieve the femoral neck,weakened by disease and at a disadvantage from its 291 right-angled position, from weight-bearing. When thedisease has ended, the deformity at the knee can becorrected by osteoclasis or osteotomy as infantile rick-ets. The true shortening from coxa vara may be onlypartially corrected by osteotomy in the trochantericregion, but the false shortening from adduction andflexion can be fully corrected. The operation is pre-cisely the same as that performed for the correction ofadduction deformity resulting from hip-disease. CLUBFOOT. Clubfoot, talipes, is a deformity of the foot, consist-ing mainly of a distortion of the bones of the tarsusand of the foot as a whole in its relation to the simple varieties of talipes are equinus and cal-caneus, varus and va
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