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Recent advances in fracture treatment Part 1 (1932)

1932 · Short film · 20 min

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This film promotes the novel (at the time) method of providing fracture patients with freedom of movement, which using the examples given, means that the patients are fit and well without further rehabilitation 'reduction, fixation' and 'continued use of the limbs'. The patients are all ordinary people who appear to have work-related injuries. They are shown recovered going about their everyday lives. The intertitles explain this in detail. First, Colle's fracture treated with Carr's splint is demonstrated ('old method') the patient is an old man. It is shown how this splint discourages movement through 'fear'. The ensuing stiffness requires many further weeks of treatment. The new method is shown a lady makes a bed, she peels potatoes in close up and then rotates her arm and wiggles her fingers. The case of a bus driver follows. Next, the old method versus the new method of treating a fracture of Carpal Scaphoid a lady demonstrates lack of movement in her arm. In an x-ray, disuse calsification of the bones is in evidence. A man wearing worker's overalls demonstrates his flexibility then proceeds to set up step-ladders and climbs up. Fracture neck of femur - old method an immobilised patient lies on a bed his knee is extremely stiff. The knee is pinned and movement returns after surgery. The next patient, a 74 year old woman, beams at the camera. The following sequence is entitled 'Femoral Next Folies', the 1936 Beauty Chorus and ladies in tandem are seated moving their…

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