How to restore the walking powers, and muscular movement generally, or a treatise on the relief & cure of spinal curvatures, injuries of joints, sprains, deformities, rheumatism, and paralysis / by F. Graham Bennett.

  • Bennett, Francis Graham.
Date:
1874
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Credit: How to restore the walking powers, and muscular movement generally, or a treatise on the relief & cure of spinal curvatures, injuries of joints, sprains, deformities, rheumatism, and paralysis / by F. Graham Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Fig. 64 represents a back after an in- jury to the ankle, causing the patient to walk too much on the heel, and the ball of the great toe. Where the disease has not made much progress the plaister suffices for a cure, but where the hip is very much drawn up, I use, in addition, an instrument which extends from the armpit down to the heel. The object in using the instrument is to put the hip back into its relative position to the body, and to reduce the curvature of the spine. There is another lateral curve of the spine, produced by using one arm more than the other. The arm more used becomes lower than its fellow, and the distance between the armpit and the hip on that side visibly decreases. This curve is situate in the dorsal region of the spine, and may be called dorsal lateral curvature. It requires mechanical treatment, like lumbar lateral curvature, but not of so severe a kind. Indeed, in ordinary cases of this complaint, in the incipient stage, bandaging with the plaister, as shown in