Reduction of crush fractures of the spine (1934)
1934 · Short film · 17 min
Synopsis
This film contains a demonstration of details of the reduction, fixation and eventual mobilisation of a case of crush fracture of the fourth lumbar vertebra without nerve injury. The method of moving the prone, male patient is demonstrated and a double layered stockinette vest is fitted. A web harness is put around the patients shoulders and they are suspended between two tables while the plaster jacket is applied. No anaesthesia is used. The patient is shown commencing exercises and we see an x-ray of the fracture before and after treatment. 3 segments.
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 17 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Spine
- Physical Therapy (Specialty)
- Medical sciences
- Surgeons
More like this
- Suprapubic cystectotomy : McGowan Parker technique (1930)
- Technique of the radical abdomino-perineal (Miles's) operation (1933)
- Surgical anatomy of temporal bone and the simple or Schwartze operation for acute mastoiditis (1935)
- Facial paralysis following mastoid disease and operation (1934)
- Simple or Schwartze operation for acute mastoiditis (1935)
- Partial colectomy for carcinoma of the rectum (1933)
- Aseptic closure of a caecostomy stoma (1935)
- Treatment of pes cavus by surgery (1935)
- Treatment of chronic ulcers of the leg (1933)
- Radical mastoid operation (1934)