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Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann

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External URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Guttmann
Born: Date: 3 Jul 1899
Died: Date: 18 Mar 1980

Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann

Biography

Ludwig Guttmann was a nerve scientist and pioneering physiotherapist who played a significant role in the founding of the paralympics movement.

Timeline:

Born 3rd July 1899 in Tost, Upper Silesia.

1917: first medical job working as an orderly in Königschütte Hospital, a large accident hospital for coalminers in Upper Silesia.

c. 1918: enrolls on medical course at Breslau university

c. 1922: continues studies at Freiburg University

1923: returns to Breslau to work at the Wenzel Hancke Hospital.

1924: awarded MD with thesis on 'Tracheal Tumours'.

October 1924: appointed junior assistant in neurology department of hospital, working under Otfrid Foerster.

April 1928: begins work as neurosurgeon at the State Mental Hospital, Hamburg.

1929: returns to Breslau to work with Foerster as his First Assistant.

1933: the Nazi regime enacts laws forbidding Jewish doctors from working in public hospitals. Becomes Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau.

c. 1938: develops 'quinizarin test' for the investigation of the neuroregulation of sweat glands.

1939: flees Nazi regime in Germany, travelling to England via Portugal.

1939: joins Hugh Cairns and Oxford group of physiologists investigating the treatment of peripheral nerve injuries.

1944: appointed Resident Medical Officer in charge of the spinal unit of the new National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury.

1945: abandons the use of plaster beds to treat spinal injuries, replacing them with pillow packs to gradually reduce spine fractures

1945: introduces method of intermittent catheterization to reduce risk of urianary tract infection in patients with spinal injuries

1948: helps organize sports event between patients at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital (Aylesbury) and the Star and Garter Home (Richmond),

1960: founds the British Sports Association for the Disabled

1961: founds the International Society of Paraplegia

1963: launches Paraplegia, the official journal of the International Society of Paraplegia

1965: develops a special bed frame to assist with turning patients to prevent bed sores.

1966: awarded knighthood

Died March 18 1980.

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Born
3 Jul 1899
Died
18 Mar 1980
Created 'Discussion of rehabilitation after injuries to the central nervous system (section of neurology)', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 35 (4) (1942), pp. 295-308.
1942
Created 'Discussion on the treatment and prognosis of traumatic paraplegia (section of neurology)', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 40 (5) (1947), pp. 219-232.
1947
Created E. Gutmann and L. Guttmann, 'The effect of galvanic exercise on denervated and re-innervated muscles in the rabbit', Journal of Neurology & Psychiatry 7 (1-2) (1944), pp. 7-17.
1944
Created Hospital bed cycle
1949
Created L. Guttmann 'New hope for spinal cord sufferers' Medical Times 73 (1945), pp. 318-326.
1945
Created L. Guttmann and D. Whitteridge, 'Effects of bladder distension on autonomic mechanisms after spinal cord injuries', Brain 70 (4) (1947), pp. 361-404.
Dec 1947
Created L. Guttmann and H. Frankel, 'The value of intermittent catheterization in the early management of traumatic paraplegia and tetraplegia', Paraplegia 4 (1966), pp. 63-84.
1966
Created L. Guttmann and J.J. Walsh, 'Prostigmin assessment test of fertility in spinal man', Paraplegia 9 (1972), pp. 39-51.
1972
Created L. Guttmann, 'A new turning-tilting bed', Paraplegia 3 (1965), pp. 193-197.
1965
Created L. Guttmann, 'History of the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville hospital, Aylesbury', Paraplegia 5 (1967), pp. 115-126.
1967
Created L. Guttmann, 'Initial treatment of traumatic paraplegia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 47 (12) (1954), pp. 1103-1109.
Dec 1954
Created L. Guttmann, 'Looking back a decade', The Cord 6 (4) (February 1954), pp. 9-23.
Feb 1954
Created L. Guttmann, 'Nursing in Spinal Paraplegia', in M.C. Wilkinson and G.R. Fisk (eds.) Orthopaedics for Nurses (Faber and Faber; London, 1961), pp. 255-280.
1961
Created L. Guttmann, 'Nursing problems in the rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries', Nursing Times 42 (1946), p. 798.
1946
Created L. Guttmann, 'On the way to an international sports movement for the paralysed', The Cord 5 (3) (October 1952), pp. 7-22.
Oct 1952
Created L. Guttmann, 'Physiotherapy for the paraplegic', The Cord 3 (1) (Winter 1950), pp. 14-19.
From Oct 1949 to Apr 1950
Created L. Guttmann, 'Readjustment to a new life. Part I - psychological aspects.', The Cord 2 (1) (Autumn 1948), pp. 52-54.
From 1947 to 1948
Created L. Guttmann, 'Readjustment to a new life. Part II - physical aspects' The Cord 1 (4) (1948), pp. 13-16, The Cord 2 (1) (Autumn 1948), pp. 23-28 and The Cord 2 (2) (Winter 1949), pp. 21-29.
From 1948 to 1949

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