Orthopedic surgery advocated the use of exercise, manipulation, and splinting to treat deformities in children.
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14 Facts About Orthopedic surgery
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Orthopedic surgery's book was directed towards parents, and while some topics would be familiar to orthopedists today, it included 'excessive sweating of the palms' and freckles.
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Orthopedic surgery developed the club-foot shoe for children born with foot deformities and various methods to treat curvature of the spine.
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Examples of people who aided the development of modern orthopedic surgery were Hugh Owen Thomas, a surgeon from Wales, and his nephew, Robert Jones.
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Orthopedic surgery advocated enforced rest as the best remedy for fractures and tuberculosis, and created the so-called "Thomas splint" to stabilize a fractured femur and prevent infection.
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Orthopedic surgery is responsible for numerous other medical innovations that all carry his name: Thomas's collar to treat tuberculosis of the cervical spine, Thomas's manoeuvre, an orthopedic investigation for fracture of the hip joint, the Thomas test, a method of detecting hip deformity by having the patient lying flat in bed, and Thomas's wrench for reducing fractures, as well as an osteoclast to break and reset bones.
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Orthopedic surgery had the medical personnel trained in fracture management.
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Orthopedic surgery observed that treatment of fractures both, at the front and in hospitals at home, was inadequate, and his efforts led to the introduction of military orthopedic hospitals.
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Orthopedic surgery found that joint surfaces could be replaced by implants cemented to the bone.
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Orthopedic surgery's design consisted of a stainless steel, one-piece femoral stem and head, and a polyethylene acetabular component, both of which were fixed to the bone using PMMA bone cement.
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Orthopedic surgery was sent, without much orthopedic training, to look after injured Russian soldiers in Siberia in the 1950s.
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For example, hand Orthopedic surgery is practiced by some plastic surgeons, and spine Orthopedic surgery is practiced by most neurosurgeons.
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Additionally, some aspects of foot and ankle Orthopedic surgery are practiced by board-certified doctors of podiatric medicine in the United States.
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Arthroscopy allows patients to recover from the Orthopedic surgery in a matter of days, rather than the weeks to months required by conventional, "open" Orthopedic surgery; it is a very popular technique.
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