Allis’s maneuver: for Hip Dislocation

• Gravity Method of Stimson
• Bigelow's Maneuver: for Posterior Hip Dislocation
• Closed Reduction

Discussion

• patient is placed in the supine position;
• knee is flexed to relax the hamstrings;
• assistant stabilizes the pelvis and applies a lateral traction force to the inside of the thigh;
• longitudinal traction is applied in line w/ axis of femur, and the hip is slightly flexed;
  • essential feature is traction in direct line of deformity, followed by gentle felxion of the hip to 90 deg;
• surgeon gently adducts & internal rotates the femur to get reduction;
• hip is gently rotated internally & externally w/ continued longitudinal traction until reduction is achieved