The history of orthopaedic implants is a recent one, but the events that comprise that history have profoundly changed the lives of millions of people. The larger history of orthopaedic implants is also a story of technology, medicine, business ventures and entrepreneurship, and individuals. And this is especially true of the Memphis chapter of that story.
Orthopedics “took” as a way to treat pediatric deformity and then developed dramatically, in the heat of battle, confronting the massive traumas of mechanized warfare. The giants upon whose shoulders orthopedics now stands were French, German, English and American. Here is their remarkable, inspiring history.
As Far North as Memphis: Chapter 4. How did a drug store clerk, an Indiana farm boy, a surgeon, an Ohio engineer and two salespeople create the foundation for AAOS and the modern orthopedic industry? Here’s that story.
