The_Invention_of_Surgery

the deep cavity. The heavy alloy, odd-shaped implant seemingly seats itself into the crater, like a spaceship pod docking into a ...

had dedicated the first decade of his practice to fracture care, including surgical treatment of shoulder fractures. For centuri ...

rheumatoid arthritis, and heart disease treatable. Finally, advances in chemistry and polymer sciences led to a handful of mater ...

bone cement. This blueprint for joint replacement was drafted by Sir John Charnley. Lancashire County lies in the northwest of E ...

French coast. He would later serve in the RAMC in Egypt and Palestine, all the while gaining invaluable experience in treating c ...

the joints of the afflicted were still wrecked. As Themistocles Gluck painfully learned in 1890, replacing an actively infected ...

Charnley began discussing his theories with engineering friends at the University of Manchester, and they all agreed that our jo ...

(PTFE), also known as Teflon. When we hear the name Teflon, an egg skillet comes to mind, but its original use was industrial, i ...

were seeking medical and dental treatment for the first time in their lives. This demand for healthcare led to a crusade to find ...

fashioned his own implants. He also had a workshop in his own house, including a lathe where he turned his own hip socket implan ...

erosion of the “roof” of the Teflon cup, with the impression that the metal femoral head was working its way into the plastic cu ...

material with his nail, concluded that the “poly” would be a similar disappointment as Teflon, and told Craven he was wasting hi ...

them in Cidex (glutaraldehyde) overnight. Later, his manufacturing partner, Thackray, manufactured the cups and irradiated the p ...

in America every year. This number pales in comparison to the half- million hip replacements and roughly one million knee replac ...

EIGHTEEN The Birth of Sports Medicine I am sitting in the executive office suite at Arthrex in Naples, Florida, waiting to meet ...

at the very beginning of the development of arthroscopy, and Schmieding’s “better mousetrap” surgical instruments gave his empir ...

Enter Reinhold Schmieding and Arthrex. Although Reinhold was born and raised in Michigan (graduating from Michigan State in 1976 ...

Sitting in front of the drafting table, I ask him for an example. “A really important day for me was in high school, when my his ...

Arthrex survived its first decade with home offices in Munich and eventually a world headquarters in Naples, Florida. More than ...

exist in the bodies of our fellow earthlings. With Arthrex’s distribution in 150 countries, there is probably nowhere on our pla ...