TY  - JOUR
T1  - SPecial splints for certain injuries and disabilities of the extremities
AU  - CLEARY EW
Y1  - 1919/11/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610460013003
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1495
EP  - 1498
VL  - 73
IS  - 20
N2  - War and the accidents of civil industry produce large numbers of injuries to the extremities, the care of which involves the problem of splinting active ambulatory patients. Satisfactory appliances must be light, secure of adjustment and so contrived as to disturb the statics and dynamics of the wearer to the minimum degree consistent with the performance of the function for which the splint is prescribed. It is my purpose here to describe three appliances developed in caring for several hundreds of war wounds of the extremities. These appliances are (1) a shoulder abduction splint; (2) an elbow and knee traction splint, and (3) a forearm supination splint. Three models of the shoulder splint and two of the elbow splint are to be presented.SHOULDER ABDUCTION SPLINT 
    The framework of the simplest model of the shoulder abduction splint is shown in Figure 1, and the complete appliance in Figure 2. This
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610460013003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610460013003
ER  -