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Static traction is the medical termanology reffering to the use of weights or machines to provide PERSISTANT pull(with the patients body and the angle of the bed as a counterweight or counterpull). It is used to keep a fracture straight whilst it is healing. It is also used to relieve pressure on the spine or parts of the skeletal system.
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