Fig. 284
Moore’s apparatus (back view).
Fig. 285
Moore’s apparatus (front view).
When the case is complicated by other injuries necessitating confinement in bed it is sufficient to keep the patient flat upon the back and without a pillow. In this position the shoulder falls naturally in the direction desired, and perhaps no other attention will be required. Many other methods are combined with a figure-of-eight bandage, crossing the back and forming a loop over each shoulder, so as to keep it from dropping forward.
While the results of treatment are nearly always good, if one is insistent upon a minimum of deformity, confinement upon the back on a hard bed is the surest way to obtain satisfactory results. Cases in which there is little or no tendency to deformity need only the simplest support by which rest may be ensured.
Epiphyseal separations are to be treated as fractures.