Reconstructive hand and traditional Chinese medicine treatment of radius fractures of lower end of Correas.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Reconstructive hand and traditional Chinese medicine treatment of radius fractures of lower end of Correa’s [Keywords:] Correa’s fracture; hand restoration Correa’s bottom radius fracture, clinically more common, particularly for the more adult and elderly patients, children and young people also have the occurrence of such fractures [1]. Fractures often occur in the lower radius range of 2 to 3 cm. The author 2005 In March to December 2007 in the outpatient use of hand restoration, splinting, functional exercise and medicine Oral and Washing Correa’s fracture patients treated 64 patients achieved satisfactory results. are as follows. Materials and Methods 1. General Information This group of cases, 36 males and 28 females, the youngest 7 years old, maximum 68 years. 2 cases of which 10 years of age, 10 to 19 years in 8 cases, 38 cases of 20 to 50 years old, 50 years old in 16 cases. Left side of the 34 cases, 30 cases of the right, in varying degrees of fracture displacement. which fracture fragments and fractures distal to the radial deviation of the dorsal displacement of 35 cases at the same time, the simple to the 18 patients with palmar angulation, radial deviation 6 cases, 5 cases of ulnar deviation. translocation cases combined 13 cases of fracture of ulnar styloid process. 2. Diagnostic criteria All patients had a clear history of trauma, injury, joint swelling significantly, local tenderness and bone fricative, or a typical “fork-like” deformity, dysfunction of ipsilateral rotation, all cases were diagnosed by X-ray photograph. 3. Treatment (1) manual therapy: the average patient sitting, but is appropriate in elderly patients to supine, shoulder abduction suffering about 80 . Surgeon placed close together double fracture of distal dorsal thumb, other fingers placed on the wrist palm, buckle compact size of the thenar muscles, the elbow of another assistant with both hands injured limb, the surgeon and