Detail of a plaster cast cutter in use, Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan
A demonstration photograph showing a physician cutting a plaster walking cast with a tool made by Dr. Stryker's company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. View shows a seated patient and a man (both mostly out of view) holding a cutter to the front of 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.