THE PREVENTION OF ARTHRITIC DEFORMITIES BY EARLY ORTHOPEDIC MANAGEMENT
Authors: John P. Stump
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1940)

Article1 July 1940THE PREVENTION OF ARTHRITIC DEFORMITIES BY EARLY ORTHOPEDIC MANAGEMENTJOHN P. STUMP, M.D.JOHN P. STUMP, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-14-1-87 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptOrthopedic surgery provides many excellent reconstructive operations for overcoming the crippling deformities of arthritis.1, 2, 3, 4Whenever the writer has had to treat a patient by an arthrodesis or the reconstruction of a joint, the need has been apparent for an effort on the part of the medical profession5, 6to prevent the deformities requiring such procedures. Thereby, patients whose vitality is already depleted by the ravages of a chronic systemic disease would be saved from submitting to major operations. 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