A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The anterior shoulder brace. The scapular pads. infrequent intervals, and, thus, if desirable, only under thesupervision of the surgeon. This description indicates the essential qualities of the backbrace. It has been modified in various ways; for example. long since discarded the straight pelvic band in favorof one of a U-shape (Fig. 58). This makes the brace somewhatlighter and relieves the sacrum from pressure, but it does notadd to its effectiveness. The efficiency may be increased, how-ever, by improving the attachment at its upper extremity, a
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The anterior shoulder brace. The scapular pads. infrequent intervals, and, thus, if desirable, only under thesupervision of the surgeon. This description indicates the essential qualities of the backbrace. It has been modified in various ways; for example. long since discarded the straight pelvic band in favorof one of a U-shape (Fig. 58). This makes the brace somewhatlighter and relieves the sacrum from pressure, but it does notadd to its effectiveness. The efficiency may be increased, how-ever, by improving the attachment at its upper extremity, asis illustrated in Fig. 59, in which two triangular pads of hardrubber connected by a metal bar are employed. This is an improvement on the simple shoulder straps of theoriginal brace, but it does not provide the quality of support and TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF THE SPINE. 99 fixation that is desirable when the disease is of the upper ormiddle segment of the thoracic region. In such cases the upperpart of the chest is flattened, the i
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