. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fracture of os calcis. (Cabot.) the displacement by drawing the heel downward and forward. Cottonand ^Yilson ^ did this by passing a stout steel pin across in front ofthe insertion of the tendo Achillis and forcing the posterior fragmentforward and downward; they avoid recurrence of the displacement byfixing the foot in plantar flexion so as to relax the muscles of the ^ passed a strong elevator transversely through the foot closebeneath the fragments and forced them upw^ard, and then fixed themin place with a long nail driven th
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fracture of os calcis. (Cabot.) the displacement by drawing the heel downward and forward. Cottonand ^Yilson ^ did this by passing a stout steel pin across in front ofthe insertion of the tendo Achillis and forcing the posterior fragmentforward and downward; they avoid recurrence of the displacement byfixing the foot in plantar flexion so as to relax the muscles of the ^ passed a strong elevator transversely through the foot closebeneath the fragments and forced them upw^ard, and then fixed themin place with a long nail driven through them from the back of theheel. When the direction of the violence with reference to the axis of theleg is such that the foot is adducted or inverted by it, the strain isbrought upon the external lateral ligament and the sustentaculum tali, 1 Cotton and Wilson: Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., Oct. 29, 1908.» Becker: Ztlblatt. fiir Chir., 1908, p. 112. FRACTURES OF THE BONES OF THE FOOT. Fig. 340. 461. Fracture of os calcis. (Cabot.)Fig. 341.
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