bonesetting
Manual skeletal repair
Bonesetting is the practice of manipulating bones and joints to treat fractures, dislocations, and musculoskeletal problems.
Historically performed by folk practitioners without formal medical training, bonesetting predates modern orthopedics and remains practiced in traditional medicine worldwide.
The practitioner is a bonesetter: The village bonesetter reset his dislocated shoulder.
Device immobilizing injured limbs
- castPerformers, throw, or splint
- breakInterrupt continuity
- reductionMaking something smaller
- immobilizationPreventing movement entirely
dislocation · repositioning · realignment · fracture · compound · greenstick · comminuted · spiral
Musculoskeletal system physician
- surgeonPhysician who operates
- chiropractorPractitioner who adjusts spines
- imagingProducing visual representations
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
musculoskeletal · joint · ligament · anatomy · traumatology · arthroscopy · orthosis · prosthesis
Regular common people
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- herbalismPlant-based healing tradition
- curanderoLatin American folk healer
- poulticeMoist healing application
manipulation · ancestral · indigenous · healer · remedy · liniment · massage · tribal
Regaining what was lost
- mendingRestoring damaged items
- callusHardened protective skin
- knittingLoop-based textile making
- regenerationBiological self-repair process
convalescence · rehabilitation · recuperation · restoration · repair · therapy · physiotherapy · weightbearing
splint
Device immobilizing injured limbs
immobilization · dislocation · repositioning · realignment · fracture · compound · greenstick · comminuted · spiral · transverse
orthopedist
Musculoskeletal system physician
- surgeonPhysician who operates
- chiropractorPractitioner who adjusts spines
- imagingProducing visual representations
diagnosis · musculoskeletal · joint · ligament · anatomy · traumatology · arthroscopy · orthosis · prosthesis · clinical
folk
Regular common people
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- herbalismPlant-based healing tradition
- curanderoLatin American folk healer
poultice · manipulation · ancestral · indigenous · healer · remedy · liniment · massage · tribal · apprenticeship
recovery
Regaining what was lost
regeneration · convalescence · rehabilitation · recuperation · restoration · repair · therapy · physiotherapy · weightbearing · remodeling
- ancient surgeryamputation, trepanation, cauterization, bloodletting, cautery
bonesettingorthopedic surgery
Musculoskeletal operative medicine
surgical intervention · evidence-based medicine · reconstructive surgery
bonesettingfracturing
Process of breaking
dislocation · bone-breaking · bone breaking · dismemberment · injuring
bone, setting, bones, boneless, setter, bonehead, boneyard, boneheaded, bonefish