Traction

1. Is that real blood?
2. Is that a face I see somewheres in the picture?
3. Is that an orb under the traction device?
4. What kind of camera do you use?
5. Do you think this place is haunted because I've heard about a lot of ghosts there and stuff?
6. Could you please leave me detailed instructions on how to break into this place, even though you have told us repeatedly you won't give us this information?
7. How do you spell "asshat"?

Lynne, you are by far the queen asshat! It isn't blood, it's poop!!! Really runny poop...

Oh, geeze guys! LoL! You make my day! I tHiNk I sEe ThE fAcE!

Let's not forget all those poor tortured souls who were expri-mentalled on cuz they were crazy, and the docterz would kill them too.....on that contrapshun, too..., then we broke all the windoze...

MY FRENZ SPENT THE NITE HERE! LIKE, OMG, I WOULDA BEN SO FREEKED! I AM FER SHER GONNA TAKE THIS HOME AND PUTT IT IN MY ROOM

Okay now that I'm done LMAO....... Mr. Motts, you're KIDDING us that this was in a closet right? A really HUGE closet??

**I feel so gullible**

Of course it is real blood. Motts is just trying to fool you by saying it is rust. That is why he danced around your question. ;)

Now thats a "toy"

Wull itZ nOt heRe nemorez cuZ my frenz n i toOk it lAsT nite! iT wUz so funn!! I'm gunnA pUt it In my PaRtee RoOm and it will bE soOO SweEt!!!shift!!

*cough* Wow, that thing does look malicious, I have to admit. And there's that Baker's Pink again, I think...

Barbara - Is your PaRtee RoOm in a barn?!

Lynne!! Best post yet!! LMAO >:-)

Damn, if I need that much traction, please kill me!

I can't comment, I'm just seriously morbid! But... my inner freak was rather intrigued by that machine! :-O

BTW- Where is the face?

We stoled onne jus like dis, were goNNa make a coffey table, but nun oF us drink koffee<LOL

LYke NO Way you allz have it like totally frickin' wrong, breakin windows isnt fun becuzzz If My Mommy found outs i was here andz I gotzzz arrerstered then I'd be grounded from the interents for lyke a week.
It's eazier to just lyke, say you'v been in there instead of being a ghay loooser face and going inzzzzz!

I live near Danvers, most people who claim to actually have entered lie.

0h ma gaWd. liKe a friend of MY mom's FrieNd's ex_CowoRKEr used to lIKe werk ther and ShE tolD meThAT they useD t00 CHAin Pe0plz to thAt thiNG and like TurtuRE them n' stuff.

Lynne....you forgot that there is always a friend that worked in those places.

man,you people are strange in a funny sort of way....

Lynne, in a long list of fantastical posts, thisis by far the bestest.

That is one seriously evil looking device...

hummm, guess there is not alot of nurses on here.

I can honestly say that I have never in all my days working in the health care field have i ever come in contact with something like that. Although i doubt many cardiac patients would need this type of device.

That's a traction bed. A very OLD traction bed.
Traction was used in patients with oseteopathic injuries. Bone fractures for use lay people.
Traction is applied to help straighten long bone injuries. (Femur, Humerous)
Traction is also used in the spinal injuries.
Before we really learned that many spinal injuries were paralyzing and that there was no (and is no) real way to reverse the damage. Patients were put in traction, to help realign the spine. Mostly to help keep the discs between the bones from calcifying, or deteriorating to the point where bone would rub on bone causing the patient more pain.

For many spinal cord patients. Traction was and still is torturous. You cannot move ANYTHING. There is no turning your head, moving your wrists..nada.
A very real idea of a traction patient is believe it or not.. In a movie. Born of the 4th of July has a scene in which Tom Cruise was in a VA hospital in traction..

While much of the other goings on around it were a bit fantastical. No nurses coming to help clean up vomit. No nurses coming in to care for the patient.
(Yes.. things like that did and do happen) but not because these nurses are being cruel or intentionally mean.
What people don't realize is that nurses, like other medical care workers have to put priorities on things. Sadly, cleaning up vomit is at the bottom of the list if you have a patient not breathing. Sorry.

Since the use of this particular kind of traction table (or bed) we have learned leaps and bounds on matters of long bone and spinal cord injuries.
Unfortunately, it did have to come at the expense of comfort of some people.

Remember.. Medicine is a Practice. It is not an absolute.

That's not blood on the floor, Lynne, don't be silly! It's soap leaking from that dispenser in the ceiling...

I dunno, but this whole shot is just really creepy and totally badass to me...keep it up...

where the hell is the fucking face already?

Sorry - I made that up back in January.

I'm a real asshat, aren't I? :-)

LoL! But that's why we love ya! :0)

God I want one of those....

Oh sh1t did I say that outload?

Lynne, love the info. Please keep it up

This device is nothing more than torture to the person who was subjected to it. This device is somewhat of an immobalizer, a person would be attatched to the device and suspended or positioned by it. This allowed medical staff to examine and treat illness. However this form of medical restraint has been known to kill patients.

Oh my goodness . . . . . .

Lynne are you ok hun? This must be distressing for you.... ; - )

too bad its photoshopped...
a) look at the lighting on the object, then look at the lighting in the room. Notice the difference?
b)the perspective between the object and its background seems off
c)shadows. whoa boy, the shadows undeeneath the large feet on the sides make it look like its floating, and the spaller posts (and the rest of the machine doesnt even cast a shadow

by "put there" im guessing you meant digitally?

Looks real enough to me, and I've been known to fight with lighting for most of my [amateurish] shoots (so I like to think I know what I'm talking about).

Motts destroyed Frank there =D

Wow Frank!
It must be SO great to be THAT much of a Photoshop Pro. How long has it taken you to develop such a good eye? I've been working with Photoshop in my professional life for about 8 or 9 years (since about version 3), and I NEVER would have guessed that the traction machine was layered in on top of the room. <sarcasm>Great catch </sarcasm>

I don't have extensive experience with photoshop but cutting something so intricate out seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth. I think the angle of the traction machine made it look off but it looks to me like that that is all it is the odd angle.

can ya respond? need help doing research!

There's nothing 'photoshopped' about it! The 'floating' as you put it is because the wheels are well up inside those huge legs. Some traction beds will actually retract the wheels so that it sits firmly in the floor (this one the feet get cranked down). As for the lighting in the room, you're forgetting that this isn't direct light! Photoshopped indeed! Hey, you know they faked the moon landing right, you can tell by the light and shadows ;)

Lighting isnt the same in the entire room. Im sure motts is Honest enough not to play tricks like that. and anyways it seems real as can be.

I am not sure why they would need a fracture table in this facility but this looks like the Chick fracture table we still use in the operating rooms now.
http://www.pemed.com/t...ckjcltaccess26_2.jpg

Excuse me while I scream uncontrollably, and scream, and scream, and scream some more. This thing looks like my second worst nightmare.

My great grandmother and my aunt used to work there and they said that the patients sometimes were forced to have sex with each other . kinda sick

At a tuberculosis sanitarium??!!??!! My goodness.

Really? Was that a form of treatment? Damn, never wished I had TB but now... I only have one question -- are you allow to choose who you have treatment with?

*laughs at Lynne and Felyne* TB doesn't sound so bad now! XD

Eded up in one of those, well a newer one anyway when I broke my leg pretty badly. Uncomfortable, yes, torture, definitely not.

I just came across this:
http://blog.modernmech...8/surgical_frame.jpg
and it reminded me of this pic.

No problem! That article is from 1938, btw - so it might be the first foray into the frame that was later developed and used in hospitals.

"By: Frank too bad its photoshopped...
a) look at the lighting on the object, then look at the lighting in the room. Notice the difference?
b)the perspective between the object and its background seems off
c)shadows. whoa boy, the shadows undeeneath the large feet on the sides make it look like its floating, and the spaller posts (and the rest of the machine doesnt even cast a shadow

by "put there" im guessing you meant digitally?"

Wow, now we know where the misc. chemicals went that were missing from the pictures. Frank was drinking the soap from the dispensers. :-)

Frank got burned! I'm getting really pissed at all the people who 'say' they've stole things from here. It's not right!

LMFAO! Hilarious comments! :-D

On another note, damn I hope I never need traction, at least not in THAT thing!

Oh, and BTW, Frank is a tool. ;)

I cant stop laughing! someone noted that this was used by patient 4 Sex, Holy Moses! in a TB hospital??????

This is sad...you can feel the pain that the patient must have felt.