please answer this question about traction!

You mean concensus (to agree, especially in opinion).

Before I would accept the informal postings of people on a website as gospel, I would go to a library and research this for yourself. You don't know any of our credentials.

Correct you may not actually be a 1000 year old turtle :-D

you can't remove the weights of skeletal traction w/o MD order. let the px use the overhead trapeze when he wants to move.

When my son was 13 he fractured his femur and was in pinned skeletal traction for 31 days and then a spica cast for 8 weeks. When we moved him up in bed one nurse stood at the foot of the bed and lightly supported the weights as we moved my son up in bed. The weights were never removed. The support by the nurse at the weights kept them from pulling hard on the pin sites. Worked great!

thank you everyone, this helped a lot!