Detail of lower extremity walking cast removal, Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Description:
A demonstration photograph showing a physician removing a plaster walking cast. View shows the lower half of a seated patient and a man (mostly out of view) pulling the front section of a plaster cast. The photograph was one of ten showing the progression of preparing and removing a walking cast with a cutter made by the Stryker Corporation. The photograph was taken for Dr. Stryker (Stryker Corporation) of Kalamazoo, Michigan. An article in the Kalamazoo Gazette, dated March 3, 1946, reported that the three principal products invented between 1942-1946 by Dr. Stryker's Orthopedic Frame Company were the turning frames for bedfast persons, the cast cutter and the "Stryker Heel" for walking casts.
Institution:
Western Michigan University Libraries
Collection:
Ward Morgan Collection
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Type:
still image