A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The Phelps hip splint. A chair to be used with the long hip patient sits upon the sound side, while thesplinted half of the body remains in the extendedposition, the brace resting on the floor. As a matter of experience, it will be found that motion of theupper part of the trunk is absorbed, as it were, in the flexiblelumbar region of the spine before it reaches the joint. If, how-ever, such motion or any motion causes discomfort or aggravatesthe symptoms, the patient should be confined in the recumbentposture until the acute phase of the disease h
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . The Phelps hip splint. A chair to be used with the long hip patient sits upon the sound side, while thesplinted half of the body remains in the extendedposition, the brace resting on the floor. As a matter of experience, it will be found that motion of theupper part of the trunk is absorbed, as it were, in the flexiblelumbar region of the spine before it reaches the joint. If, how-ever, such motion or any motion causes discomfort or aggravatesthe symptoms, the patient should be confined in the recumbentposture until the acute phase of the disease has passed. It issaid that the brace is cumbersome, that the patient cannot sitwith comfort, and that it prevents normal activity. A long TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF TEE HIP-JOINT. 359 brace certainly weighs more than a short one, and if a braceprevents flexion of the hip and spine it is evident that thepatient cannot sit with comfort in an ordinary chair. The patients themselves, however, make little comj^laint ofthe brace, even when i
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