Congenital dislocation of the hip / by J. Jackson Clarke.

  • Clarke, J. Jackson.
Date:
1910
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    CHAPTER VII THE ULTIMATE RESULTS OF THE MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT These results, critically verified four or five years or more in carefully observed patients, have proved so much better than our most hopeful expectations that we can hardly read our forecasts made about the time of Lorenz's visit to England (1903) without a sense of pleasure. For instance, in that year, in describing a typical case of anteversion, a colleague wrote : ' This case is a typical example of a large percentage of the results of Lorenz's method of replacing a congenital dislocation of the hip. The head of the bone is not perfectly in joint, and does not rest upon the acetabular cartilage. It is displaced outwards and forwards, so that there is a fulness on the front of and external to the centre of the joint, and a displacement outwards of the whole bone, making the great trochanter more prominent than on the opposite side. The firmness of the joint, however, and the joint movements, are as perfect as can be desired, although the anatomical reformation of the joint is not complete.' The contrary of this, which was the view of most of us at that time, has proved to be true ; the true and