yeah you know I wd whine .....
come come my dears
Arbuthnot Lane experimented with an ivory prosthesis 1909.
he was the one struck off for doing total colectomies on rich women for auto-intoxication. Operative mortality 20%
so HE was the first
and the second was - - - Judet ( Fransh )
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296815/
1950 ! christ I didnt realise it was that early
Charnley went back to uni and did engineering when a consultant. - and the big thing was .....
biomechanically the best result was NOT to mimic the anatomical configuration but that the femoral head should be relatively large
of course the engineers here wd know that
( sorry I cant resist being snotty as ever)
oh we had ward rounds on how to design prostheses from Lettin. His Lettin shoulder prosthesis was less successful.
eek really crap actually
https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/abs/10.1302/0301-620X.64B1.7068719
McMinn - oh dear dear -
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/derek-mcminn-celebrities-hip-surgeon-gordon-strachan-wagner-birmingham-b605121.html
has been keeping femoral heads like golf balls ( there is a law against this after the baby organ scandal)
and his hemiarthorplasty ( I have one and wanted another) is under - - investigation. I wanted one so badly that I wd pay and was told that they werent allowed to do it - even if I paid
and that is the end of -- - hip replacement update