X-ray Findings in the bones and joints of creeping legrosy patients (Report III)

Abstract

The creeping action of leprosy-patients is one of the important actions for moving from one place to another for those patients with severe-incapacity in the lower extremities.
Those who perform the moving actions by "crawling on all fours", "buttock chafing" and "kneeling" are concentrating an abnormally great effort in the knee-joints, ischium-joints, hand-joints, and elbow-joints, therefore, X-ray pictures were taken for the observation of those bones and joints of these patients.
Some pictures showing new genese of the bones were observed at some parts of the knee-joints, also at the tibia-nodes and those parts of the kneecaps which are muscletendon-attached, portions of the elbow-joints, and in one case the elbow joints displayed symptoms resembling charcot's disease.