EIGHTEEN: THE BIRTH OF SPORTS MEDICINE
1 https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/3/#version:static. Accessed October 9, 2019.
2 Reinhold Schmieding, “Helping Surgeons Treat their Patients Better: A history of Arthrex’s
contribution to Arthroscopic Surgery” Arthrex publication, 2006, p. 12.
3 Reinhold Schmieding, Personal communication, June 2, 2017.
4 The New York Tribune the following day would declare, “... the sun smiled cheerfully, now
and then dodging behind clouds as if he had got a black eye at football ... all that was
wanted was a little warmth for there were thousands of ‘tiger’ men and pretty girls who
shivered in the chill November air.”
5 Cowan, a Presbyterian minister, would go on to become the football coach at the University
of North Carolina and the University of Kansas (where he coached John Outland). Cowan
resigned as head football coach after three years, but continued as a physical culture
professor for an additional two years, before being replaced by a new professor ... James
Naismith.
6 http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?
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7 Ibid.
8 Zezima, Katie, May 29, 2014 Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-
fix/wp/2014/05/29/teddy-roosevelt-helped-save-football-with-a-white-housemeeting-in-
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9 Almost never done anymore. We typically use the palmaris longus from the ipsilateral
(same side) arm, or one of the smaller hamstring tendons from the ipsilateral leg.
10 Dr. Frank Jobe has received special recognition at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is hard to
name another figure who has had such a profound impact on the game. Contemplate the
difference between Sandy Koufax walking away from the game at thirty, and Mariano
Rivera having elbow surgery from Dr. Jobe before ever having played a single big league
game.
NINETEEN: CALCULATING THE IMPACT
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5 Mark Coventry, “The History of Joint Replacement Arthroplasty,’ Joint Replacement
Arthroplasty (Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2003), p. 6.
6 S. Kurtz, et al., “Projections of Primary and Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in the
United States from 2005 to 2030,” Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2007, pp. 780–85.
7 K. McDermott, et al., “Overview of Operating Room Procedures During Inpatient Stays in
U.S. Hospitals,” 2014. Statistical Brief #233. December, 2017. Agency for Healthcare