A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . NNS.) under fractures. Skiagraphy is of great value in differentiating lux-ations from fractures, and the different luxations from each other. 544 INJURIES OF JOINTS, CARTILAGES AND LIGAMENTS. Fig. 307. Treatment.—In reducing dislocations of the hip it is of the firstimportance that the pelvis should be fixed. This is perhaps best doneby laying the patient supine upon the floor and fixing the pelvis with bandages to three strong
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . NNS.) under fractures. Skiagraphy is of great value in differentiating lux-ations from fractures, and the different luxations from each other. 544 INJURIES OF JOINTS, CARTILAGES AND LIGAMENTS. Fig. 307. Treatment.—In reducing dislocations of the hip it is of the firstimportance that the pelvis should be fixed. This is perhaps best doneby laying the patient supine upon the floor and fixing the pelvis with bandages to three strongrings or staples, insertedinto the floor on each sideof the pelvis and closeto the perineum. It ishardly possible for an as-sistant to hold the pelvissteady during the neces-sary manipulations of theheavy thigh and leg. Allis, who has givena great deal of attentionto dislocations of thehip, reduces the pos-terior dislocations b ykneeling at the side ofthe patient, seizing the ankle with one hand and placing the bent el-bow of the arm beneath the popliteal space ; he then turns the foot andleg outward, so as to cause inward rotation of the thigh, and lifts the. Reduction of a backward dislocation of the hip by upwardtraction on the leg which is flexed at a right angle. (Till- MANNS.) Fig. 308.
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