Miscellaneous
Dr. Mitchell Bernstein interviews Dr. Stuart Green, who was the first American surgeon to visit Dr. G.A. Ilizarov in Kurgan, USSR in 1987 and was instrumental in introducing the Ilizarov method of treating limb length discrepancies, deformities, non-unions and malunions to orthopedic surgeons around the world. In 2009, Dr. Green became involved in what would eventually become a fully implantable intramedullary nail that would lengthen or shorten any long bone by using an external remote controller or ERC powered by magnets. He is co-inventor of the device, called the PRECICE nail, the only externally controlled intramedullary lengthening and compression nail currently available in the United States.