Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january 1968 fixing fractures takes 11 Days ads by Ken Kelly Toronto up walking on a broken leg without Cane or crutches a few Days after the break sounds to laymen and doctors like heresy As treatment for a broken it today heresy will become tomorrows Dogma if the medi Cal profession profits from the remarkable experience of seven Canadian forces doctors in Hali for the last seven years the doctors at the Canadian forces have been getting Brokenleg patients on their without canes or in an average of 11 some make it without subsequent trouble in 36 they have reported their startling results to the Royal College of physicians and surgeons Complete Healing of All 48 Frac Tures of the the main Bone of the lower and Al most immediate return of the men to useful after conventional forms of usually requiring Long periods in 10 to 15 per cent of such fractures end up with complications of varying degrees of surgeon commander Donald one of the seven Halifax explained we put them in a walking cast and let them walk in a Day or two if they can do so without affecting any other injury they May we found that the longer we delay getting them on their feet the slower they Are to the walking cast is tightly applied and runs from the toes to As High up in the mans Groin As it can go without causing Dis for the first 24 to 48 hours the leg is elevated As High As Possi ble to reduce any swelling around the once evidence of swelling is we get them up and Willough by one Sailor with both legs Bro Ken and some other injuries was stumping around in six Twenty six per cent of the Halifax cases had other injun hence the 11day average for All but two of the 46 patients Are Back on Twenty two weeks was the average Healing time of the seventy per cent had United in less than six comparing favourably with if not better than other treat ment Quick return to duty was an important consideration in Lead ing the Halifax group to adopt this we know that if you take a Man out of his service duty for any Long he never comes while the Halifax group has been using the treatment for seven its Success has been established for some time among United states service colonel Ernst Dehne of the army first described it in 1961 and has been using it for 15 a few Canadian doctors have been using it since 1961 but the forces group has the longest experience and largest group of Willoughby says the method is absolute heresy to most of the profession but Hopes to convince his colleagues with the scientific evidence of the Hali fax he said this Type of fracture is commonest in the 1945 age group and is just the kind of lower leg break that skiers and motorcyclists 17year vet eran As a naval doctor and said he believes the tech Nique can be applied successful y to similar leg fractures in any age some of the patients ended up with one leg slightly Shorter than the other but no More so than in conventional treatment of the same and the shortness meant no disability in terms of their usual employ to sets stolen in breaking Domo discount 621 Sargent was broken into monday night and 50 Cartons of cigarettes police said Entrance was gained through a front police at James 921 notre Dame monday thieves forced a rear door and stole two portable television valued at born Lucky Beth Brickell says she was born on Friday a Date that has been Lucky for Forrest editor of the United Church who is attending the University of Winnipeg religion and life which continues to lung saves up treatment in a naval diving units decompression chamber Here has saved the left leg of Paul a Charlotte town area when a gangrenous ulcer on the leg failed to respond to treatment at the Victoria Gen eral Hospital in neighbouring doctors feared it would have to be but after a monthlong treat m e n t in the decompression chamber of the diving unit Gran the ulcer healed and Doucette now is expected to re turn to his farm in the near fun fitted with a pure oxygen was placed in the chamber under pressure for two daily periods of 1 hours the hyper Baric speeds Healing Farmer by forcing oxygen through tis sues and arteries Allan com manding officer of the said the oxygen enriched Atmos phere has great ties in treating patient with Gas mangled limbs or amputations which do not re Spond to Normal treatment he said hyperbaric Medicine is widely used in hospitals in the United states and Large hospitals in Canada have re compression the Granny chamber is the Only one East bumped his left leg against a farm causing a Small the Blister grew and became Gan Chuck or Reserve the right to limit Iga stores Are independently providing the Best in personalized service Iffla jew really prices effective and 24 thru to 1968 tide King size 27c off powder detergent Macaroni with 7u Kraft dinners Kane Iga Brand Icci up sunny morn i Dlf e Rice of my Vii extra Long bag it fruit cocktail bathroom tissue Beans 3189 soups vegetable 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