SLOB

This is the general plan for S.L.O.B. Muscles that promote the damaging force are lengthened or divided (based on degree), or moved to alter the kind and directionality of motion. The red is exposed marrow as the flat cup wall is curved down at the top, and forward in the back. Curved wedges are tamped into this space. A pyramid of mold-able stuff is packed along the side of the pelvis over the capsule covering the head of the femur to mid neck. This becomes bone by being consumed and converted to bone. Growth under the cover of that new bone must follow the down & out contour. Thus the native hip can and does deepen. The ridge in the bone-graft caused by the rectus femoris reflected head allows a very accurate marker for assessing original hip from augmented hip. Sometimes, portions seem to not have made bone, but ultrasound, MRI, probe, and outlining air injection as well as biopsy has taught us that this is very tough uncalcified bone. It works either way calcified or not. We call it shark bone as that is what our radiologists called it.