. Medical and surgical therapy. Fig. 30.—Applicance of Henry Meige (musculo-spiral paralysis).Leather cuff holding an aluminium trough, in which the handrests horizontally, permitting flexion of the fingers. The thumb issupported by a ring of leather. The appliance is surrounded by a sheath of leather,and is fixed to the forearm by a long cuff kept inposition by a lace passing through eyes and patient can easily put on or take off his appliance,which is also very inconspicuous (fig. 30). The same apparatus can be modified in order to. Fig. 31.—Articulated supporting appliance, allowi
. Medical and surgical therapy. Fig. 30.—Applicance of Henry Meige (musculo-spiral paralysis).Leather cuff holding an aluminium trough, in which the handrests horizontally, permitting flexion of the fingers. The thumb issupported by a ring of leather. The appliance is surrounded by a sheath of leather,and is fixed to the forearm by a long cuff kept inposition by a lace passing through eyes and patient can easily put on or take off his appliance,which is also very inconspicuous (fig. 30). The same apparatus can be modified in order to. Fig. 31.—Articulated supporting appliance, allowing angle of inclina-tion of hand on forearm to be varied (musculo-spiral paralysis,contracture of the flexors). (Henry Meige.) correct stiffness of the wrist by adding a sort of jointbetween the forearm splint and the palmar spoon,whereby the inclination of the hand can be graduatedand the hand can be maintained in the desired posi-tion (fig. 31). ORTHOPEDIC APPLIANCES 333 Another type of appliance consists of an aluminiumsplint applied by means of a leathern cuff to the dorsalsurface of the forearm. From the lower part of thissplint four flat springs project, ending in rings,through which pass the first phalanges of the lastfour fingers. The rigidity of the springs is sufficient to correctthe wrist-drop, besides which it does not impede theaction of the flexors of the hand and fingers, so that
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