Talk:Ilizarov apparatus

Bike parts
In the article I mentioned that bike parts were originally used for the frames. This was something my surgeon told me. could someone confirm this?--Drawde83 10:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes this is true, he did originally use bike parts in his first frame to lengthen the stump of an amputee to help fit a new prosthesis but he quickly moved on to using parts modified from the towns tank factory. When the word spread and patients were arriving from all over Russia he had an arrangement where a member of the patients family would work in the factory making the parts in exchange for the patient receiving free treatment.(77.97.139.220 (talk) 23:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC))

Picture
We really need a picture here Hardy 12:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Growth gain after puberty
It should be added that this is the only known method to increase growth after puberty. It is used in treatment of dwarfs. And some healthy rich and 'vertically challenged' people use it also : http://www.ilizarovheightincrease.com/procedure.html pwjbbb (talk) 07:55, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

What are the first two letters of the name Ilizarov?
Arial is a clean-looking typeface but the capital I (as in "India") and the lower case l (as in "letter") are identical, or identical to the average eye. So what are the first two letters of "Ilizarov"? After all, there are surnames such as "ffoliot" that have no initial capital letter, and there are many Welsh words that start with a double "l". Given this typeface problem, could someone who knows the answer spell it out in the article itself? Otherwise most of us are going to stumble over this name. UBJ 43X (talk) 16:52, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The first two letters of the name in the NATO phonetic alphabet are "India Lima". I don't understand what the problem is; the article makes it clear that the apparatus was a Soviet invention, not a Welsh one, so it should be obvious that the name does not begin with two l's. Graham 87 01:15, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Picture Error?
One picture is captioned "Front (top) view with a view of the healthy leg. The patient is lying on his stomach." - it appears to me that the patient is in fact lying on his back and this photograph is upside down, showing as it does a surface (presumably a gurney) at the top of the image, but I may be mistaken? --Mclean007 (talk) 12:32, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Ilizarov on right leg.jpg