Right--Quadriceps acts better than on left, muscles below the knee paralysed, and in the same area there is complete absence of sensation.
The core of the bullet was then found in the blood cavity near the surface, but on introduction of the finger a second body was discovered entangled in the quadriceps muscle, and this proved to be the tattered mantle.
The explosive exit aperture, although large, was still only moderate in extent, sometimes, as in the front of the lower third, exposing a somewhat angular large track walled by the divided quadriceps extensor cruris.
In a specimen of a patella, a perforation of the lower half, implicating also the tendon of the quadriceps muscle is, though large, almost as pure as a Mauser perforation.
It pouches upward under the quadriceps femoris for a distance of two or three inches, a pad of fat separating the capsule from the muscle.
As the disease progresses, atrophy of the quadriceps femoris muscles becomes pronounced and as destructive changes involving the articular cartilages take place.
The quadriceps group of muscles is assisted by the anterior digital extensor (extensor pedis) peroneus tertius and tibialis anticus (flexor metatarsi) muscles.
Tension on the straight ligaments below and contraction of the quadriceps above usually cause insuperable difficulty in the handling of this type of fracture in the horse.
The chief physiological antagonistics of the glutei are the quadriceps femoris and tensor fascia lata.
Described under the title of false luxation are recorded cases wherein the quadriceps (crural) muscles become contracted in such manner that a condition simulating true disarticulation of the patella obtains.
While the leg is supporting weight the stifle joint is fixed in position mainly by the quadriceps femoris group of muscles which are attached to the patella.
It is especially important to provide for the subject to be exercised when there is atrophy of the quadriceps muscles following azoturia.
These, with 14 and an abductor muscle, together make up the quadriceps extensor, the largest muscle in the body.
The bursa beneath the quadriceps extensor--subcrural bursa--usually communicates with the knee-joint and shares in its diseases.
In cases in which there has been recurrent attacks of locking, the ligaments become slack, the joint is wobbly, and the quadriceps is wasted.
The quadriceps femoris is usually ruptured close to its insertion into the patella, in the attempt to avoid falling backwards.
Treatment is conducted on the same lines as in transverse fracture of the patella; in the majority of cases the continuity of the quadriceps should be re-established by suture within five or six days of the accident.
Fibrillary tremors persisted in the quadriceps and in the extensors of the toes.
July 15 it was reported at Tours that he was not yet well, presenting a left-sided hemiparesis, especially in the leg, with a syringomyelic dissociation of sensations, with atrophy of the quadriceps and diminution of reflexes on the left side.
Markoe observed a patient of seventy-two, who ruptured both the quadriceps tendons of each patella by slipping on a piece of ice, one tendon first giving way, and followed almost immediately by the other.
Gibney records a case in which the issue was not so successful, his patient being a man who, in a fall ten years previously, had ruptured the right quadriceps tendon, and four years later had suffered the same accident on the opposite side.
One or more of the middle ribs on the right side were broken near the angle, and there was a large transverse rent in the quadriceps extensor.
The right leg will be raised and thrown forward with a jerk, owing to the contraction of the quadriceps muscles.
A further cause of disability, following upon sprains of the knee, is wasting of the quadriceps muscle.
The tuberosity of the tibia, into which the quadriceps extensor tendon is inserted, lies on the same level as the head of the fibula.
In oblique fractures, the pointed lower end of the proximal fragment may transfix the quadriceps extensor muscle and may be felt under the skin, or it may perforate the skin and thus render the fracture compound.
In pronounced cases the quadriceps tendon and the patella are displaced laterally, and this may be so pronounced that on flexion of the joint the patella is dislocated on to the lateral condyle of the femur.
When the quadriceps is overcome by a contraction of the hamstrings, as in spastic paraplegia, the knee is fixed in the flexed position and the child is unable to walk.
In the treatment of recurrent sprains of the knee, therefore, special attention must be directed towards the wasting of the quadriceps by means of massage and appropriate exercises.
The patella is projected forward, the quadriceps tendon is lax, and the skin over it is thrown into transverse folds.
This is best treated by pegging the tuberosity in position, and fixing the extended limb on an inclined plane to relax the quadriceps muscle.
When the quadriceps alone is paralysed, the patient is obliged to maintain the joint in the position of extreme extension, because the least degree of flexion results in the limb giving way under him.
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