Practical remarks on the causes, nature, and treatment of deformities of the spine, chest, and limbs, muscular weakness, weak joints, muscular contractions, and stiff joints : containing the results of the author's experience, and showing the advantages derived from the modes of treatment which he has recently introduced / by Joseph Amesbury.

  • Amesbury, Joseph, 1795-1864.
Date:
1840
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    SECTION II. Deformity of the Chest from Muscular Weakness, accompanied with, or arising from, Internal Disease or Disorder, and with or without a rickety Condition of the System. Period of life in which it commonly commences—usual form of the chest—functions impaired, 144; medical treatment often inadequate—Author's treatment, mechanical and medical—effects upon the muscles—progress in bad cases—careful management necessary, 145 ; contractions com- mence in childhold—may remain during life—as seen in adults—treatment in adults— contractions from destructive disease in the lungs not curable, 146; illustrative Cases, 48, 49, 50, 147—151 ; Plate XXVIII., Figs. 59, 60. CHAPTER III. Weakness, Deformity, Stiffness, and Contractions of the Limbs. SECTION I. Of Weakness of the Knee and Ankle-Joints, and of the Arch of the Foot, with or without Deformity of the Bones. Very common—local cause—weakness from relaxation—deformity of the bones, 152 ; names of these distortions—differ in degree—treatment, 153; principles—usual supports inadequate—Author's Leg Support—general treatment—in the recent stage easily removed, 154. Of In-Knee. Slight cases sometimes cured without Supports—time required to reduce the bones—after reduction, 155 ; the use of the Supports to be continued—how long, 156; illustrative Cases, 51, 52, 53, 156—158; Plate XXIX., Figs, 61, 62; remark, 159. Bow-Knee. Nature of, 158; treatment, 159; Case 54, Plate XXX., Figs. 63 and 64, 160. Weak Knee-Joint from Relaxation, without Deformity. Case 55, 161. Weakness in the Knees from loss of Balance of Power in the Muscles. Treatment, 162. In-Ankle. Plate XXXII., Fig. 69 ; nature—treatment, 163. Out-Ankle. Plate XXXII., Fig. 68 ; nature—cause—treatment, 163; time in curing, 164.