Were surgical pins in common use in the 50's?!
Question:
Were surgical pins in common use in the 50's?
Answers:
Yes they were.
The most frequently used ones, were femoral internal "pins" or Kuntschner bars, inserted inside of the femur, during WWII invented in Germany by war surgeons, in order to restore the broken bones, and bringing the soldiers back to the battlefield as soon as they could...
Other types of pins, (externals) were invented by Swiss surgeons, in the 40s, and regained popularity again, since 1992...and pins were used to straighten broken fingers in the 50s onwards....brought into good fashion by american Othtopaedic surgeons..
Bars and pins to correct broken vertebrae, or to fix scliosis, were brought about in the 50s by Harrington in England, and Mexican surgeon Joaquin Luque......
So the answer is yes, they were used from some few decades back, with some modifications, with the pass of time---