TY - JOUR AU1 - Lasher, Willis W. AB - The accompanying illustrations sufficiently well illustrate this simple brace, so that there remains only a necessity for enumerating some of the advantages of this appliance over the more commonly used types of elbow braces. The same principle may be used in treating injuries in and about the knee joint when forcible flexion or extension is desired. It is to be remembered, however, that splinting is to be used only in conjunction with other means to obtain a result in long standing conditions. Those cases requiring the dressing of wounds about the elbow may be more easily treated with this brace, because no part of the appliance comes in close proximity to this region. Most other splints interfere more or less in the dressing of these wounds, because they depend for their support on a structure placed along the posterior surface of the joint. None of the usual types can be TI - A REVERSIBLE AND ADJUSTABLE ELBOW SPLINT JF - JAMA DO - 10.1001/jama.1919.26110180001008 DA - 1919-05-03 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/a-reversible-and-adjustable-elbow-splint-bdOMqHvVCW SP - 1282 EP - 1282 VL - 72 IS - 18 DP - DeepDyve ER -