[Diagnosis and treatment of compression joints]

A clear-cut diagnosis of "compression joint" is usually difficult in daily practice. The two main reasons for this seem to be a lack in specific diagnostic examination procedures and of an unambiguous nomenclature. The results of the treatment of 148 patients and those of a long term study on 50 patients with "compressed joints" provided us with a foundation for establishing a specific method of examination which might be very useful in diagnosis and therapy of the "compression joint".