Fractures of the lower limbs and their secondary skeletal adaptations: a 20th century example of pre-modern healing
✍ Scribed by R. Neri; L. Lancellotti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1047-482X
- DOI
- 10.1002/oa.686
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This study focuses on an old male skeleton, which shows severe fractures of the right femur and of the left tibia and fibula. The skeleton, complete and in a good condition of preservation, comes from a Sardinian osteological collection (from the beginning of 1900 AD) with known age, sex and life‐activity. The features of the fractures and pattern of joint disease, enthesis development and enthesopathies have been studied in order to ascertain a possible cause for these traumatic events, the functional implications for postural and locomotory behavior and, finally, the eventual evidence of medical treatment. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.