A few Controversial theories
on Orthopedic Surgery for discussion and debate. This is not medical advice
and should not be taken or used as medical guidance.
(ed. interpreted and paraphrased without much accuracy and more bluntly
than dad finds comfortable by Francis X. Gentile
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Under Construction
and ongoing rough draft
The Old Ways
Might Be Faster, Better and Cheaper,
Take a Look.
Great Procedures are being thrown out without proof that
the new procedures are better.
Quality Techniques may be lost. This is an attempt to record some techniques
and reinvigorate some older or uncommon procedures.
Even the staunchest advocate of the latest sophisticated procedures, must
be prepared to perform the best of simpler procedures on persons with complications
or extreme age, or perform simpler procedures under conditions of disaster,
epidemic, antibiotic resistance, war and poverty. And when medical fashion
permits, these old ideas can be "invented" anew and gain acceptance
as if they had never existed before. If "old" procedures are performed
wrong, it is a self fulfilling prophecy to say they are no good. Let's see
if we can write down how to perform them right.
A Few Orthopedic Issues
Colles Wrist Fracture, an uncommon?
small cast splint that avoids surgery
The Art and Benefits of the Plaster Cast
just because fibreglass is easier does not make it better. Self Interest has
the cart leading the horse.
Hip Replacement glue vs. wedged
in , Fit the hip to the patient not the patient to the hip. The hip revision
specialty should not exist. Possible Generic Charnely Hip manufacture.
Factors in doing the cemented hip implant well
Where do you buy one piece cemented prothesis? Stem and Cup in the US? or
anywhere? is it time to start
manufacturing the original Charneley Cobra Style again?
Back Surgery How do you do
an MRI now that you have put metal in the spine? infections? How about the
interbody fusion done well?
Bunion Surgery
Plastic Surgeon quality scars for every surgery, Why Not?
Is Amoeba infection a factor in MRSA infections?
Laminar Air Flow Surgery
Rooms, Why Not?
Some historical information about Orthopedics and Dr. Luigi Gentile