On the restoration of motion by forcible extension and rupture of the uniting medium of partially anchylosed surfaces / by Bernard E. Brodhurst.

  • Brodhurst, Bernard Edward, 1822-1900.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On the restoration of motion by forcible extension and rupture of the uniting medium of partially anchylosed surfaces / by Bernard E. Brodhurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    borne; blit they were gradually increased, until the limb could be perfectly flexed and extended. For six weeks after the rupture there was scarcely any voluntary power of flexion of the thigh, notwithstanding that tenderness on motion had ceased. From this time, however, motion began to increase, so that in the course of another six weeks there was considerable power of voluntary motion. Obliquity of the pelvis was in great measure overcome, and the sole of the foot was in con- tact with the ground. The foot could now be thrown well forward in walking. Five months after the opera- tion the thigh could be flexed without assistance beyond a right angle, and it could be fully extended; the pelvis had regained its horizontal position, and the foot could be well flexed in walking. In March, 1857, this patient walked with a stick, but firmly. March, 1858.—In regard of size and firmness, the two limbs were nearly equal; the buttock also had nearly regained its normal size. A stick was used for support when she walked to some distance from home; but in the house it was not now used. All the motions of the hip were perfect, and they could be employed unaided, except extreme flexion of the thigh. This thigh could not be flexed so perfectly as the other. Case ii.—J. M—, an officer in a cavalry regiment, early in the year 1854, in India, joined a shooting party, and having been for some days on marshy ground, was attacked with rheumatism, and had to be carried home. He remained confined to bed for three months, suffering