FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to traumatology and orthopaedics for eliminating a functional block of the talocalcaneal joint formed by a traumatic injury of the ankle joint of various severities. A warm-up foot and shin massage is given. The massage is followed by keeping the lower extremity in a lower one-third of femur at an acute angle in the knee joint. The calcaneal bone and the forefoot are grasped to perform stoops and stretches of the ankle joint at an amplitude of 30 degrees from the physiological foot position, and pronations and supinations of the heel. The movements are terminated by jerking traction with clicking.
EFFECT: method restores a spring function of the foot.
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Dates
2014-09-20—Published
2012-12-14—Filed