Day Two of On this day in prosthetic history
Charles King
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Collection
Title:
Day Two of On this day in prosthetic history
Creator:
Charles King
Date:
10/20/2021
Text:
Day Two:
Forty-five years agotoday, now 16,438 days ago, Wednesday, the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center exhibitentered the second day of display at the 1976 AOPA-Interbor InternationalCongress and Assembly. Day One email sharedthe slideshow (linked for reference at the end of this note) that ran in thecenter of the exhibit. Here is a link tothe official Armed Forces Institute of Pathology exhibit monochrome archived photograph(#76-706):
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If you look closelythere are two pairs of 14 x 36 X-ray film in the exhibit showing before and afterX-rays. Observe the positionof the femur, it has been supported in adduction in the X-rays closest to thecenter of the exhibit. Ivan Long, CPmade those limbs and used an alignment technique coined by the Fitzsimons PTdepartment as “Long’s Line.” You’veheard of it. Pictures of the exoskeletallimbs below the X-rays provide a clue how improved adduction was achieved and agood reason why we need to preserve documentation on how an exoskeletal limbwas manufactured (we should probably film this before the skill is completely lost, any suggestions?). Long’s line doesn’ttranslate that well to modular componentry in either alignment or cited definition in recent research.
Back to the ArmedForces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), it was established in 1862 and closed in 2011. They had an extensive collection of medicalexhibits, including this photograph of the Fitzsimons' exhibit. Irecall having been told that there was 70 thousand boxes of materials instorage, no clue what happened to the AFIP’s collection, most likely it’s beenlost.
We need to appreciatehow fragile archives, libraries and institutes actually are. It’s up to us topreserve our history and today I’m passing the hat, I’d like to ask for $7 fromeach member of the list serve to support the library. To those that have donated, please let meknow.
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Kind regards,
Charles
Day One: narratedslideshow of the exhibit (for reference):
1976 Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Exhibit
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1976 Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Exhibit
Recreated from transcripts by Jim Scanlon, PT. Narration by Charles King, CP. This video was generated as pa...
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Forty-five years agotoday, now 16,438 days ago, Wednesday, the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center exhibitentered the second day of display at the 1976 AOPA-Interbor InternationalCongress and Assembly. Day One email sharedthe slideshow (linked for reference at the end of this note) that ran in thecenter of the exhibit. Here is a link tothe official Armed Forces Institute of Pathology exhibit monochrome archived photograph(#76-706):
<URL Redacted>
If you look closelythere are two pairs of 14 x 36 X-ray film in the exhibit showing before and afterX-rays. Observe the positionof the femur, it has been supported in adduction in the X-rays closest to thecenter of the exhibit. Ivan Long, CPmade those limbs and used an alignment technique coined by the Fitzsimons PTdepartment as “Long’s Line.” You’veheard of it. Pictures of the exoskeletallimbs below the X-rays provide a clue how improved adduction was achieved and agood reason why we need to preserve documentation on how an exoskeletal limbwas manufactured (we should probably film this before the skill is completely lost, any suggestions?). Long’s line doesn’ttranslate that well to modular componentry in either alignment or cited definition in recent research.
Back to the ArmedForces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), it was established in 1862 and closed in 2011. They had an extensive collection of medicalexhibits, including this photograph of the Fitzsimons' exhibit. Irecall having been told that there was 70 thousand boxes of materials instorage, no clue what happened to the AFIP’s collection, most likely it’s beenlost.
We need to appreciatehow fragile archives, libraries and institutes actually are. It’s up to us topreserve our history and today I’m passing the hat, I’d like to ask for $7 fromeach member of the list serve to support the library. To those that have donated, please let meknow.
<URL Redacted>
Kind regards,
Charles
Day One: narratedslideshow of the exhibit (for reference):
1976 Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Exhibit
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1976 Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Exhibit
Recreated from transcripts by Jim Scanlon, PT. Narration by Charles King, CP. This video was generated as pa...
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Citation
Charles King, “Day Two of On this day in prosthetic history,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 22, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/255593.
