Reducing rest and immobilization to a minimum means much to the patient, not only in the loss of valuable time but in annoying and serious after effects. Many cases of sprains and fractures come to the osteopath. In sprains that have become chronic through too much rest of the part and improper treatment, almost invariably there is found displacements of bone and adhesions that should never have existed; then has followed organized exudates and chronic synovitis. In fractures and even in complete dislocations the osteopath continually observes that too much rest has been given the part, resulting in unnecessary adhesions, contractions, atrophy of muscles, and impairment of function. Treatment almost always cures the condition, or at least materially relieves. How much better if the proper treatment had been first instituted and thus a large percentage of cases prevented from becoming chronic. Of particular interest to the osteopath is the paper prepared by Eisendrath on “Early Massage and Movements in the Treatment of Fractures and Sprains,” and the discussion that followed before the Chicago Medical Society. The Illinois Medical Journal, December, 1903, contains a report. Eisendrath said in part: “The former routine of immobilizing all fractures and the adjacent joints for a period of four to six weeks must, I feel, be subject to slight modification in the light of recent experience, and it shall be the aim of this paper to show what these changes are. When we are called to a case of fracture, it should be one’s first duty after its reduction to consider how can I best aid the patient in recovering the usefulness of his or her limbs? Can we shorten the long convalescence with its resultant loss of valuable time and earning capacity? How can we most rapidly restore to the limb its normal joint functions and prevent an atrophy of muscles and an ankylosis which will require many months to overcome?... “The use of massage and of active and passive movements in the treatment of fractures and of severe sprains has been gradually gaining in the number of its advocates through the writings of Lucas-Championniere of Paris. We owe him a great debt for calling the attention of the profession to the employment of these methods in order to prevent atrophy and ankylosis as well as to promote healing....