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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1937;19:964-977.
© 1937 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

THE VALUE OF EARLY WEIGHT-BEARING IN THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR

With a Report of Twenty-Four Cases

SAMUEL KLEINBERG M.D., F.A.C.S.

The results of the treatment by the system outlined have been so startling—in all cases in which the treatment was not interrupted by some intercurrent illness bony union was obtained—that they seem incredible in the light of our previous experiences. Perhaps it is merely good fortune in a small series of patients, but the facts that some of my colleagues who have used the method obtained equally good results, and that Dr. Apfelbach and Dr. Aries report a high percentage of bony union by a method which is practically identical with the one I use, encourage me to hope that accurate reduction, firm immobilization, and early weight-bearing will help solve the vexing problem of fracture of the hip.


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