. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. The same ; showing backward riisi)laceinent. produced and the sequence of events accurately observed. Clinicallvit cannot be demonstrated so easily, for the patient can rarelv give adetailed account of the manner in which the injury was received, butin one of my cases the mechanism was evident : while the patient waskneeling on one knee, the foot resting on the hyperextended toes, hewas pressed backward so that his buttocks rested on and forct^d theankle inward, causing abduction of the front of the foot. The essen-tial lesion is the tibio-
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. The same ; showing backward riisi)laceinent. produced and the sequence of events accurately observed. Clinicallvit cannot be demonstrated so easily, for the patient can rarelv give adetailed account of the manner in which the injury was received, butin one of my cases the mechanism was evident : while the patient waskneeling on one knee, the foot resting on the hyperextended toes, hewas pressed backward so that his buttocks rested on and forct^d theankle inward, causing abduction of the front of the foot. The essen-tial lesion is the tibio-fibular diastasis, the rupture of those ligaments,and the consequent widening of the mortise within which the astrag-alus is held. Exceptionally the displacement of the foot and fibula may bo 442 Separation of lower tibial 317.
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