SLOB

Look at the date, 2001. Back then we had no Cafe'Door method to bail out such way way too late cases. So we pushed SLOB much further than we do today. That required some lengthening and bracing gymnastics to place and hold hip position until bone was solid enough to take over. SLOB, today is far better than back then because these too far gone cases are now Cafe'Door (which has SPML and SLOB included within the tall list of things that make up the Cafe'Door surgery. It takes a page just to list the parts, but it works... reliably.