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Subject:
The Campbell Splint
Category: Reference, Education and News > Teaching and Research Asked by: claywork-ga List Price: $50.00 |
Posted:
11 Aug 2002 12:27 PDT
Expires: 10 Sep 2002 12:27 PDT Question ID: 53314 |
In 1950 I was born without and acetabulum or hip joint. My grandmother then invented "The Campbell Splint" which I wore for the first 3 years of my life. The idea was to keep ones legs spread apart to put pressure on the pelvis to create an acetabulum from/for the top of the femur. It worked. She lived in California and went to Los Angeles, California, with it to a prominent doctor. She hoped they could patten it. Well he did, and called it "The Campbell Splint". She never received a penny. There was an article in Los Angeles Times about it with the doctors picture, probably in the late 50's. I just wonder whatever happened to this project. If it went on to help children. And if it was really pattened. She even had x-rays that documented my progress.....but all are gone now.......So I guess my question would be can you find any record of "The Campbell Splint"?? Someone , actually a nurse, mentioned to me a few years ago that there was even a Campbell Clinic back east in Oaklahoma or?? somewhere, that specialized in this sort of thing for small children .....any thing is appreciated...... Well I can see from below this is probably a pricey question so I'll start at $50 | |
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Subject:
Re: The Campbell Splint
From: bitmaven-ga on 11 Aug 2002 15:34 PDT |
claywork-ga: I was hunting around in the uspto figuring I might be able to find something on 'acetabulum" and "Campbell" in a query. I managed to come across one patent recently filed in 1979 that referenced a 'Campbell Jr., et. al.' as prior works. Their patent was approved in 1972, a bit late for your grandmother, but I figured I'd send out the link as a comment. Hope this helps. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ft80&S1=(acetabulum+AND+Campbell)&OS=acetabulum+AND+Campbell&RS=(acetabulum+AND+Campbell) bitmaven-ga |
Subject:
Re: The Campbell Splint
From: voila-ga on 13 Aug 2002 11:42 PDT |
FWIW, there's both a Campbell split and Campbell airplane splint in "The Surgical Word Book," 2nd Edition by Claudia Tessier (offline source). I'll check some surgical sites when I have a minute. |
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