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Identifier: sajoussanalytica08sajouoft (find matches)
Title: Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sajous, Charles Euchariste de Médicis, 1852-1929
Subjects: Medicine Medicine -- Practice
Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co.
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ough the window cut in thejacket, and his efforts to get awayfrom the pressure in the front tend torotate the spine on its long axis allthe day long instead of during thefew minutes devoted to exercise bythe former method. SPINE, DISEASES AND INJURIES OF (SAYRE). 281 Abbott applies his jacket with thepatient suspended, back down, in asort of hammock, the feet beingfastened to a pulley high above thehead and suspended from a frame.The arms are twisted so as to rotatethe spine and untwist the curve.Others apply the jacket with the pa-tient seated and bent forward withthe hands holding the sides of an up-right frame. The principle is always corrected, but overcorrected, and adeformity on the opposite sidecaused. After this has taken place a remov-able corset should be made which thepatient wears all the time, removingit morning and night for the purposeof exercising. Later on, the corsetmay be removed at nigiit. A case is not cured until the patientcan voluntarily hold the spine straight
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Method of making pressure on projecting ribs to correct rotation in lateralcurvature of the spine. (R. H. Sayrc.) to secure marked flexion, of the spine,and in this position seek to unrotatethe vertebrae, making pressure againstprojecting points and cutting win-dows through which the concave ribsmay project in response to pressurefrom within the thorax. Such a corrective jacket should berenewed in six weeks, the paddingbeing changed once or twice a week,according to the amount of change. Efforts are made to untwist thespine until the deformity is not only without support, and until the twistedbones have become straight, as other-wise the spine will relapse when sup-l)ort is removed. Report of Committee of the Ameri-can Orthopedic Association to in-vestigate the results of tlic treatmentof scoliosis by the newer methods:1. Overcorrection of the deformity isapparently possible I13 means of Ab-botts method in cases of moderateseverity and perhaps occasionally insevere cases. 2. If suffic

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