Orthopedic Surgery for Practitioners (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...and seamstresses' cramps are characterized by incoordination, pain, and weakness or spasm of the muscles of the forearm and hand, which have been habitually overworked, particularly by long-continued, finely adjusted movements. The pains and cramps are often so severe that the occupation causing them has to be given up. Spastic, paralytic, or tremulous symptoms may predominate. Delicate and neurotic people are most subject to these affections. Treatment is often difficult and usually prolonged, but frequently successful. The occupation causing the cramp must be given up until the cure is complete, or nearly so. Massage or vibration of the arm and upper spine, galvanization, and muscle training, especially in the larger movements with tonic treatment, usually give satisfactory results. In writers' cramp the use of the typewriter is often of great assistance. Hysterical contraction of the fingers and hands is sometimes severe. The treatment is the treatment of hysteria with such local treatment as may be necessary. DEFORMITIES OF THE PELVIC GIRDLE AND LOWER EXTREMITY AFFECTIONS OF THE PELVIS Affections Of The Pelvic Bones The bones of the pelvis sometimes become infected by pus, tubercle, or other microbes, without the involvement of the hip-joint or spine. Such infections may be puzzling and difficult to treat, but the principles of treatment are those laid down in the general part. Secondary involvement of the pelvis is common in hip disease. Affections Of The Sacro-iliac Joints Anatomy and Causation.--The sacrum is connected with the ilium on either side by well-developed joints covered by smooth cartilage, permitting a rocking motion on a horizontal axis passing through the middle (second vertebra) of the sacrum. These joints are held in place and protect...