Online ISSN: 2515-8260

De-rotation boot cast and traction in intertrochanteric fracture hip: An implant guy’s envy and a government surgeon’s pride

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Bheemsingh Samorekar, Ravikumar Naganur, Vijaykumar Angadi, Yogesh Kadam

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Introduction: In this genre of AO principles, most of the fractures are fixed surgically unless it's a hairline fracture or a very high risk patient with co-morbidities. Material & methods: Our study involves 23 patients visiting a remote government medical college with hip intertrochanteric fracture (IT) which were managed non-operatively due to co-morbidities and/or patients not willing for operative management. All those patients were applied de-rotation boot cast and applied 10% traction of their body weight over it. Clinical and functional outcome was measured by Harris hip score at admission, 6, 12 and 18 months follow-up. Radiological evaluation done by radiographs of hip-AP and lateral views

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