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Biomechanics of Diarthrodial Joints - Volume I (Paperback, 1990)
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Biomechanics of Diarthrodial Joints - Volume I (Paperback, 1990)
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Historical folklore indicates that Asklepios (circa 900 BC), the
fir~t western doctor of ancient Greece, treated many patients with
rheumatic diseases of 1 joints ,2. Later, Hippocrates (circa 400
BC), who claimed to have learned from Asklepios, used the term
arthritis in reference to joint diseases: "When the disease of
arthritis strikes, acute inflammation and pain attacks the joints
of the body ... ". Indeed, arthritic joint disease dates much
farther back into antiquity than Asklepios. Many modern
anthropologists have noted degenerative joint disease in the
fossils of Neanderthal man (archanthropus europeus petraloniensis)
and even in those of dinosaurs. More recent scientific studies on
joints date back to the work of the great English anatomist Hunter
who wrote "The Structure and Diseases of Articular Cartilage" in
the Philosophical Transactions of London in 1743. The notion that
osteoarthritis results from the wearing away of cartilage was
copiously documented by the histological observations of the German
physician Ecker in 1843. This idea was further supported by Pommer
(1927) who felt that mechanical stresses played important roles in
the initiation and propagation of cartilage lesions leading to
osteoarthritis. This same conclusion was reached by the assembled
distinguished experts at a National Institutes of Health Workshop 3
held in 1986 .
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