Was Mr Charnley at Wrightington Hospital near Wigan the first one to perform the operation in this country.Or In the world. The hip joint was known as the Charnley hip
2007-07-01 23:13:23 · 4 answers · asked by peter w 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
I note that the Wiki article offered by one of your answerers has been cited since Sept. 2006 because no sources are given. Therefore, In lieu of that resource to answer your question, I offer this one as a better alternative, complete with sources cited.
http://totaljoints.info/HISTORY_TotalJoints.htm
2007-07-02 04:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by Kraftee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Sir Robert Jones for whom the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Oswestry is named performed a gold foil interpositional arthroplasty in a hip sometime in 1912. As for Prof. Charnley, I know for a fact that he was the pioneer in low friction total hip replacement using metal on plastic. The so called Charnley hip was composed of a plastic acetabular cup with a small stainless steel femoral head. His tests at his laboratory at Wrightington Hospital paved the way for the success of THRs around the world today.
2007-07-02 02:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by Rene B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr Harry Segarus did mine in 2003 and its been like a new hip no trouble at all ~~
2007-07-01 23:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest recorded attempts at hip replacement (Gluck T, 1891) ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_replacement
it's all there
2007-07-01 23:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by tricky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋