The contribution of the Ural Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics to the development of Ilizarov's concepts

Abstract

UNIITO workers’ scientific findings on the problem of compression-distraction osteosynthesis according to Ilizarov have been presented by the authors for 50 years. The clinical debvelopments of this school have allowed to propose new ways and technologies of diagnostics and treatment for patients with the locomotor system pathology. Experimental-and-theoretical studies formed the basis of causing the concept of distraction histogenesis. Bone restoration under lengthening should be considered as а variety of physiological regeneration.