T2 Brochure - Stryker

Introduction
Kiel Plant History
100 years ago, on December 5, 1904,
when Ernst Pohl founded the company
that was eventually to become Stryker
Trauma GmbH, nobody could
have imagined the extraordinary
developments that would result from
the collaboration between Dr. Ernst
Pohl and Prof. Gerhard Küntscher.
The Küntscher and Pohl team
established the technical and clinical
principles on which the closed
technique of intramedullary nailing
of long tubular bones is based. When
this was first introduced in 1939,
intramedullary nailing was regarded
as a revolutionary method that
challenged the proven and established
procedures of the time. Prominent
opinion leaders in trauma surgery
were scathingly critical. From the
beginning, however, support came
from Prof. Fischer, the Director of
Surgery at Kiel University Hospital,
who was convinced “that Mr.
Küntscher‘s procedures represent a
great advancement” and history has
proved him right.
In the intervening years the technique
of intramedullary nailing has been
developed and refined many times
over. Today it is the method of choice
used by trauma and orthopaedic
surgeons throughout the world
for treating a wide range of long
bone fractures. Whilst many other
manufacturers have subsequently
produced locking nails based on the
principles established by Küntscher
the birthplace of the technique is and
remains Kiel, the place from which
the Küntscher nail began its spread
around the globe. From this place,
many innovative, pioneering products
have been introduced worldwide and
many more will surely follow.
Staff in front of the barracks in the Hospitalstraße 5−7, Kiel (1953)
Main entrance Stryker Trauma GmbH (2009)
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Stryker Osteosynthesis is steeped in
this tradition of innovation. Within
the Stryker Corporation, it focuses
exclusively on the intramedullary
treatment of fractures of long
bones and develops, manufactures
and distributes intramedullary
locking nails and their associated
instrumentation to the worldwide
market. Stryker Osteosynthesis has
created a new generation nailing
system, bringing together all the
capabilities and benefits of seperate
nailing systems to create a single,
integrated surgical resource for
fixation of long bone-fractures.
The T2 Intramedullary Nailing
System is Stryker´s latest and most
comprehensive development of the
original intramedullary nailing
principles presented by Prof. Gerhard
Küntscher in 1940.