Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Here follow, with drawings, certain technical descriptions of injuries and their treatment...
...university. The first table of figures includes all injuries received by the players previous to this season, while playing football either at school or at college; the second table includes all injuries received this year. Second, to illustrate general methods which were found to be useful in the treatment of acute traumatisms common among football players; and, finally, to present certain special methods of treatment of special injuries...
...this year. Every man was required, on joining the squad, to make out a card for a card catalogue, on which he stated the number and character of his previous injuries. (2) Clinical records which were kept by the writers of the cases which came under their observation and treatment. These records were kept only in cases of injuries of great or moderate severity, practically all of which were sufficient to keep men out of the play for a greater or less length of time. No clinical record was kept, however, of the infinity of minor injuries which constantly came...
...following general methods of treatment of the ordinary, acute injuries were adopted: There was almost no fixation of injured parts, except fractures and dislocations, throughout the entire season, as the men were anxious to return to play and it was our belief that fixation usually unduly prolongs the time of convalescence. In the ordinary sprains of joints and notably in the cases of acute knees, heat was used very extensively, either by means of hot bathing or by means of the "baking machine." A large part of the acute injuries were treated by massage, with most remarkable and satisfactory results...
...Fletcher's theories have been well known for several years, and have formed the basis of successful experiments at the University of Cambridge, in England, and at Yale. Professor Chittenden, of Yale, subjected a squad of soldiers and some athletes to the treatment, and the results confirmed Mr. Fletcher's theories...