Gavriil Ilizarov, an orthopedic surgeon from Russia, is credited with inventing the external fixator—a limb-lengthening device that manually pulls apart bone to increase a patient's height. For those ...

Juanito Javier is an uncommon doctor–rare as the doctor who does housecalls and does not write in hieroglyphics. For one, he doesn’t play golf. Never picked up a club in his life. "I just don’t have ...

In the Bible, the hopelessly lame were sometimes healed by divine power. Today, the Ilizarov Medical Center is developing technologies that can do veritable miracles - correcting deformed legs faster, ...

It’s a miracle. There have been a lot of improvement in my leg for the past six months,” said Saji Mon, who is undergoing treatment by orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Shibu John Varkey, in Changanassery, ...

Doctors of the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital successfully corrected a deformity in a fire accident patient. A team of orthopaedic surgeons led by Satish Nesari, ...

Gavriil Illizarov, an Azerbaijani-Jew, and his World Changing Invention From my own experience and from the life stories of so many others, I know that a Jew, a Christian or Muslim growing up in ...

La misma ciencia que elevó hasta la órbita terrestre al homo sovieticus logró también que este pudiera levantarse sobre sí mismo hasta diez o veinte centímetros. Un pequeño palmo para la humanidad, ...