A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The stretcher frame on which the patient is replaced while the jacket is hardening. Fig. Jacket applied by the stretcher method, showing the depressions on either sidecaused by the frame pads. ing process, must conform to the habitual posture of pressure pads of the frame indent the bandage on eitherside of the spinous processes (Fig. 57), and thus afford better 92 ORTHOPEDIC SUEGEBY. support and fixation. This is a very satisfactory method of ap-plying the jacket in this class of cases, because it is not neces-sary to retain the child in
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The stretcher frame on which the patient is replaced while the jacket is hardening. Fig. Jacket applied by the stretcher method, showing the depressions on either sidecaused by the frame pads. ing process, must conform to the habitual posture of pressure pads of the frame indent the bandage on eitherside of the spinous processes (Fig. 57), and thus afford better 92 ORTHOPEDIC SUEGEBY. support and fixation. This is a very satisfactory method of ap-plying the jacket in this class of cases, because it is not neces-sary to retain the child in an uncomfortable position while thesupport is hardening, and because accuracy of adjustment inthe best possible attitude is assured. For the routine application of the plaster jacket vertical sus-pension is to be preferred, because in this more natural attitudethe support may be more accurately and comfortably hammock method and that just described are of particularservice in the treatment of young subjects. The supine posturemay be selected with advantage when the spine is sufiicientlyflexible at the seat of
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