SLOB

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. By 4 weeks we have lots of bone. We need to toughen this new bone. That is done by weight bearing. Weight bearing begins in ~ 4 weeks if the x-ray looks good.

Bilateral SLOB Upper left inset has both hips uncovered and both Shenton's lines are badly offset. Hips are subluxed (subluxation = ball off center in deformed acetabulum, on their way toward dislocation).