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...barber's case was one of the most successful among 25 patients in whom Orthopedic Surgeon Adrian E. Flatt has installed a total of 92 steel joints at Iowa City's University Hospitals. Some have been working well for 3½ years. British-born Dr. Flatt got the idea from Colonel Earl W. Brannon, who devised a similar steel hinge for U.S. Air Force accident victims. But Dr. Flatt has modified the hinge and adapted the technique to the knuckle and middle joints, which are most often frozen by arthritis...
...hinges, Dr. Flatt cuts back the ends of both bones that form the defective ball-and-socket joint. He also removes any remaining parts of the synovial membrane, which encloses the natural joint, because this is an important site of arthritic disease. He inserts the double-prong ends of the two hinge parts into the squishy centers (marrow canals) of the cut-off bones. Muscles and tendons must then be slipped into their proper places with exquisite care...
...first, Dr. Flatt used a hinge with a single prong at each end, but found that a finger might rotate around this. So he switched to double prongs which cannot twist. Though originally designed for middle joints, the hinges are proving most useful as replacements for knuckles...
Last week in Nashville, Scruggs, Flatt and their Foggy Mountain Boys (fiddle, mandolin, bass violin, steel guitar) were busy taping enough bluegrass tunes to enable them to leave their daily radio show for one of their frequent concert tours. On the road, dressed in black jackets, red string ties and white Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift...
Both Southern hill boys who have been playing and singing as long as they can remember, Scruggs, 37, and Flatt, 47, met in Nashville, the country-music capital, decided in 1948 to form their own band, were soon the most popular dispensers of bluegrass in the business. They now make nearly $100,000 a year apiece. Their fees are among the highest on the country circuit, but thanks to their sponsor, fans can sometimes get in to hear them at half price: they need only present an opened sack of the sponsor's corn...