Documents that can be downloaded from AMON, the Association of Maltese Orthopaedic Nurses include
Caring for Traction - Information about the Care of patients with tractions including prevention of complications
Applying a Thomas Splint and Russell Traction - This document shows a step-by-step application of a Thomas splint and a...

J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1982;64(5):530-5. Pre-operative correction in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Edgar MA, Chapman RH, Glasgow MM.
One hundred and sixty-seven patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were allocated prospectively to one of three different groups for correction before undergoing posterior spinal fusion and Harrington instrumentation, In group 1 single curves were...

Flinders South Australian Orthopaedic Resitrars' Notebook Fracture Healing Unique in that there is reconstruction of the original tissue rather than healing with scar formation as in other tissues. McKibbin B JBJS (1978) (from Cardiff Royal Infermary) Stages of Fracture Healing: Inflammatory Stage: Fracture ® soft tissue injury and ruptured vessels Formation of Fracture haematoma Osteocytes deprived of...

Various forms of massage, traction, and manipulation have been used in medicine throughout the world for several thousand years. Each modality represents an approach to treatment of the musculoskeletal and other systems sought by a steadily increasing number of people. While research on each of these modalities continues, a long-standing variable...

Definition Traction is force applied by weights or other devices to treat bone or muscle disorders or injuries. Purpose Traction treats fractures, dislocations, or muscle spasms in an effort to correct deformities and promote healing. Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers

Advanced Spinal Decompression Using The DRX9000 In Wall NJ (Jersey Shore)
TRACTION VS SPINAL DECOMPRESSION
    Often times, when I first consult with a herniated disc patient, they tell me they just feel like being pulled apart. If there was just a way to pull the bones off of the herniated disc. Well, that's...

Advanced Spinal Decompression Using The DRX9000 In Wall NJ (Jersey Shore)
TRACTION VS SPINAL DECOMPRESSION
    Often times, when I first consult with a herniated disc patient, they tell me they just feel like being pulled apart. If there was just a way to pull the bones off of the herniated disc. Well, that's...

Traction Radiography Often Helpful in Evaluating Scoliosis
Report on a study published in Spine 2004. News Author: Laurie Barclay, MD CME Author: Désirée Lie, MD, MSEd
This CME activity has expired. Medscape cannot attest to the timeliness of expired CME activities. Nov. 15, 2004 — Traction radiography performed under general anesthesia (TUA)...

Another manifestation of juvenile traction osteochondritis? Batten J, Menelaus MB. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1985 Mar;67(2):249-51
Six boys with fragmentation of the proximal pole of the patella are reported; the condition was bilateral in one. Four of the six presented with symptoms of Osgood-Schlatter's disease or Larsen-Johansson disease of the...

Spinal traction is the process of applying force through body weight, weights, and/or pulleys to draw apart the vertebrae of the spine.

Traction produces a reduction through the surrounding soft parts which align the fragments by their tension. When the shaft of a long bone is fractured the elastic retraction of muscles surrounding the bone tends to produce over-riding of the fragments. This tendency is greater when the muscles are powerful and long...

Fractures have been treated with immobilization, traction, amputation, and internal fixation throughout history. Immobilization by casting, bracing, or splinting a joint above and below the fracture was used for most long bone fractures, with the exception of the femur, for which traction was the mainstay of treatment. In the past,...

Sun City Physiotherapy Downtown is a 3,400 sq.ft. facility with ten treatment rooms, a private room, traction room and a spacious exercise area with cardio equipment, weights, balance trainers and other rehabilitation equipment. The clinic is on the ground floor with ample parking in front and across the street. Sun...

Osgood-Schlatter (OS) disease is more appropriately described as a disorder or a condition. Osgood, in the English literature, and Schlatter, in the German literature, independently described this condition in 1903. The etiology and treatment of OS condition have been disputed since its original description. OS condition is a traction phenomenon resulting...

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Synonyms and related keywords: Sever's disease, calcaneal apophysitis, calcaneal epiphysitis, traction apophysitis, Achilles tendon pain, heel pain
Sever disease is a painful inflammation of the calcaneal apophysis. It is classified with the child and adolescent nonarticular osteochondroses. (The other disease...

- Smith Petersen improved & revived the anterior iliofemoral approach;
- entire ilium and hip joint can be reached thru iliac part of incision;
- with this approach there is a need for extensive detachment of tendinous insertions & retraction of muscle, with ...

Notes and Illustrations
Children and adolescents 10-14 years
Knee pain aggravated by activity
Tenderness and soft tissue swelling over the inferior pole of the patella.
Probably traumatic (traction injury) origin
Closely related to Osgood-Schlatters
Tendinitis, followed by calcification or ossification.
X-ray - osseous fragmentation at lower pole patella
NOT an apophysitis...

Osteochondrosis / Stress Frx of Medial Epicondyle
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Discussion: - a traction apophysisitis of the medial epicondyle which needs to be distinguished from avulsion frx of the medial epicondyle - the medial epicondyle is an apophysis which is connected to the MCL as well as being connected to...