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The Orthopædic Nurse attended seventy-six sessions in order
to carry out the remedial exercises and massage. Forty-seven
children were referred by the Orthopaedic Surgeon for treatment
of this nature. Six hundred and thirty-eight attendances were
made. The average number of children attending at each
session for exercise and massage was just over eight.
The Orthopædic Nurse reports that most of the children
appear to enjoy attending the classes for exercises and that on
the whole the parents have co-operated well.
When this has been the case, the progress made has been
much more marked than when the parents have been unable to
attend, owing to their own domestic work preventing them, or
owing to lack of interest.
By far the greatest number of children attending have been
cases of defective posture and flat foot.
The Orthopaedic Clinic in Wimbledon is fulfilling a very
definite need, and the work during 1933 has been most successful.
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The six children sent in to Pyrford, under the orthopaedic
scheme, for in-patient treatment were suffering from the
following defects:—
Infantile Paralysis with spinal
curvature 1
Pseudo-coxalgia (left hip) 1
Spastic Diplegia 1
Tuberculous hip (arrested) 1
Old Osteomyelitis (right femur) 1
Contractures of hand and ankle
following burns 1