Shouldice Research Paper
The Shouldice Method
Two young medical students were standing on a street corner observing people as they passed and discussing any abnormalities with each other that they may have seen in passers-by. They saw this old man walking sort of duck waddling down the street at a slow pace.
The two students introduced themselves to the gentleman and told him that they didn’t agree with each other’s diagnosis of the old man’s problem. One says, “My friend thinks you have a bad case of hemorrhoids, and I think you have a hernia.”
The old man said, “I thought it was a fart, but from the feel of it, looks like we were all wrong.”
Hernias are a condition that make part of your body organ poke through or protrude through the wall of the cavity that is containing it. The wall of the muscle tissue usually becomes too weak to hold it, and the organ than pokes …show more content…
There are many varieties of hernias; Inguinal, Ventral, Femoral, Umbilical, Epigastric, and Hiatal to list a few (Ethicon). Hernias may be acquired or congenital, some may be reducible or nonreducible, some are benign while others may be life threatening, and some are internal while others are external. The Shouldice Hospital dealt with one specific type of hernia, the abdominal external hernia (Heskett 2003). The Shouldice repair method claims to maintain a 99.5% success rate on the inguinal hernia, which is said to set them apart from other medical facilities (shouldice 2013). The Shouldice surgeons have performed more than 360,000 operations, that approximately 700 hernia surgeries per day (shouldice 2013). The Shouldice method prepares the connective tissue and muscles of the abdominal wall into three separate layers. The bulging wall of the bowel/intestine is then pushed back to the inside of the abdomen. Each of the muscle layers is then repaired individually to strengthen and reinforce the abdomen wall
Two young medical students were standing on a street corner observing people as they passed and discussing any abnormalities with each other that they may have seen in passers-by. They saw this old man walking sort of duck waddling down the street at a slow pace.
The two students introduced themselves to the gentleman and told him that they didn’t agree with each other’s diagnosis of the old man’s problem. One says, “My friend thinks you have a bad case of hemorrhoids, and I think you have a hernia.”
The old man said, “I thought it was a fart, but from the feel of it, looks like we were all wrong.”
Hernias are a condition that make part of your body organ poke through or protrude through the wall of the cavity that is containing it. The wall of the muscle tissue usually becomes too weak to hold it, and the organ than pokes …show more content…
There are many varieties of hernias; Inguinal, Ventral, Femoral, Umbilical, Epigastric, and Hiatal to list a few (Ethicon). Hernias may be acquired or congenital, some may be reducible or nonreducible, some are benign while others may be life threatening, and some are internal while others are external. The Shouldice Hospital dealt with one specific type of hernia, the abdominal external hernia (Heskett 2003). The Shouldice repair method claims to maintain a 99.5% success rate on the inguinal hernia, which is said to set them apart from other medical facilities (shouldice 2013). The Shouldice surgeons have performed more than 360,000 operations, that approximately 700 hernia surgeries per day (shouldice 2013). The Shouldice method prepares the connective tissue and muscles of the abdominal wall into three separate layers. The bulging wall of the bowel/intestine is then pushed back to the inside of the abdomen. Each of the muscle layers is then repaired individually to strengthen and reinforce the abdomen wall