A detailed review of hip reduction maneuvers: a focus on physician safety and introduction of the Waddell technique

Dislocation of the hip is a well-described event that occurs in conjunction with highenergy trauma or postoperatively after total hip arthroplasty. Bigelow first described closed treatment of a dislocated hip in 1870, and in the last decade many reduction techniques have been proposed. In this artic...

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Main Authors: Bradford S. Waddell, Shafiq Mohamed, John Trey Glomset, Mark S. Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Medical Publishing 2016-03-01
Series:Orthopedic Reviews
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Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/or/article/view/6253