Ortopedická protetika Praha sro - Společnost pro pojivové tkáně

The 4 th Prague-Sydney Symposia “Diagnostics
and Conservative Treatmnet of Congenital
and Acquired Locomotor Apparatus Defects”,
Lékařský dům Praha, 2003. Profesor Jacques
Chêneau vlevo, směrem doprava profesoři
Kazimierz Kozlowski, Tomasz Karski, Ivo Mařík.
1961, Professor Gaubert asked me to help him to build plaster casts according to Abbott
for scoliosis patients. This technique gave not satisfaction, so that I began building “Abbott
casts” made with polyester and fibre-glass. This material tended to replace plaster at this
time. I did those essays for my private patients, not in hospital. I took all the charge of the
costs of material and of the work, which were many times higher than the money which
was repaid by the insurance company. In the year 1976, Professor Matthiass in Munster,
Germany, was interested by my works. He proposed polyethylene as a basic material, and
published results in 1979 in Bratislava. With a great modesty, he gave to the brace my name.
There was a great and immediate world success, which never decreased. Since that time,
I always have bettered the techniques, thus eliminating problems one by one.
In the year 1985, I moved towards Germany, in the well known Centre for Scoliosis
directed by Doctor Zielke. Back to France, 1987, I became retired in order to do only workshops
all over many parts of the world.
Books published
Cheneau brace, 1984; German, three editions 1986, 1994 and 1997; translated into
12 languages or more; French, 1994; Spanish, 1998. Numerous papers in many languages
(French, German, English, Russian, Spanish) in the world press. Website in five languages.
http://cheneau.info
Awards
International Scientific Symposium to Honour
for the 80 th Birthday of Prof. Dr. Jacques
Chêneau, May 11–13, 2007, Regensburg. Jacques
Chêneau se svou dcerou Francois.
Officer of Legion d’honneur; war cross; medal of wounded soldiers; medal of
Vietnamese souvenir; fighter cross. Honorary membership of the Society for Connetive
Tissues, Czech Medical Association J. E. Purkyně.
POHYBOVÉ ÚSTROJÍ, ročník 14, 2007, č. 3+4 273