METHOD FOR TREATING CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: medicine; orthopedics for children. SUBSTANCE: child is placed on his back and kaput femoris is manually set into cotyloid cavity. Setting of kaput femoris is practised by exerting pressure by fingers onto greater trochanter of child's leg bent at right angle in hip and knee joints and pressure is directed towards hip joint. Next hip is drawn outwards at an angle 60-80 deg until complete stop is sensed. Resulting adduction contracture is eliminated by bringing hip to vertical axis at an angle 40-50 deg and by performing hip's oscillatory motions to both sides at an angle 20-30 deg from its initial position in parallel to table plane. Additional manipulations are performed to form cotyloid cavity while bringing hip towards sagittal plane at an angle 60-70 deg. Simultaneously, kaput femoris is performed rotary motion by bringing thigh forwards and backwards. Correctness of hip settling is checked after setting capita femoris of both hips. To make correct check, child's both legs are bent at knee and hip joints at right angle, hips are brought together and drawn them completely apart. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 2 cl