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Identifier: treatiseonorthop1910whit (find matches)
Title: A treatise on orthopedic surgery
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Whitman, Royal, 1857-
Subjects: Orthopedics
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
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The final result of extreme psoas contraction. The direct bone deformity beingcomparatively slight. is diseased, particularly when lateral deviation of the spine ispresent. The most troublesome complications of this region are psoascontraction and the abscess with which it is often combined. As has been stated, psoas contraction changes the attitudeof overerectness, favorable to repair, to a forward stoop that TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF THE SPINE. 107 increases the pressure and friction at the seat of disease. Ifthis attitude persists and if it becomes fixed bj permanentchanges, such as are likely to follow the burrowing of a pelvicabscess most disastrous deformity may result; the body and thethighs are approximated and the erect attitude is made im- FiG. 76.
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Final result of lumbar disease; spontaneous absorption of abscess, and butslight deformity. (See Pig. 13.) possible. In neglected cases of this character, tenotomy andforcible correction or even subtrochanteric osteotomy may benecessary to overcome the secondary deformity. In ordinarycases of psoas contraction, and when one limb only is flexed, thepatient may be allowed to go about with crutches using a highshoe on the unaffected side, so that the flexed limb need notaffect the attitude. If, however, the contraction persists, it is 108 ORTHOPEDIC SUEGEBT. well to place the patient on a frame, and to reduce the flexionby traction in the line of deformity, or it may be directly re-duced under ansesthesia and restrained by a spica jacket as willbe described in the treatment of disease of the hip-joint. Per-sistent psoas contraction is almost always a symptom of abscessabout the origin or in the substance of the muscle, and when itis accompanied by pain it is always an evidence of progres

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