Skeletal traction is a treatment method for broken bones. It’s a system where a combination of pulleys, pins, and weights are used to promote the healing of fractured bones. These are usually in ...

7). G. D., a 24-year-old soldier, sustained a simple fracture of the shaft of the right femur in a motorcycle accident on August 8, 1948. He was placed in balanced skeletal traction for 1 week.