SLOB

SLOB

– really?

A quasi sincere apology for the name: 'SLOB' was not the intended name, but none of the five other names that were being tried or that others substituted including Summit Shelf survived. SLOB isn't really a shelf anyway. “SLOB” is, evidently, just too easy to remember and it gets the radiologist's attention when written on x-ray prescriptions - better than any of the substitutes. “ Supero-Lateral Outcropping Bone-graft ” is what we wrote on the prescriptions for post op hip x-rays, because radiologists, alarmed at the sudden new bone and extent, were calling it a possible sarcoma and putting everybody into panic. This treatment trick SLOB uses was first used by us for other troubled orthopedic bone healing situations with high success but also with similar radiology false alarms. Not one but, two of these early cases got biopsied (one at a very well known cancer hospital) where healthy new bone that was well organized was found. How it began First, why do anything? Young

children have hips that are mostly soft (growing) material similar in feel to adult ears. Sustained pressure within