Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    maintain the restraint for a period after the joint is sound. The surgeon need have no anxiety of any evil result should he, through over caution, prolong the rest unnecessarily. I admit that a vast number of acute cases, arising from rheumatism, gout, and other constitutional disturbances, recover with but little or none of what I would term rest; but fixed rest is a necessity for the joints that may have entered upon the chronic stage. In conformity with the proverb that no rule is without an exception, cases do occur where anchylosis will take place whatever treatment is adopted, yet these cases I am satisfied will under this method become of extremely rare occurrence. These exceptional cases will certainly be met with, and use having failed to restore the functions of the joint, then the operation of forced flexion and extension should be resorted to (not passive motion.)