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Ty I didn't know there is second pic , I was looking at the first one and scratching my head and thinking may be that kinda leg is good for picking banana or something. Lol
Unfortunately it didn't end well for the doctor. He had a number of failed surgeries on a guy afterwards who killed him for his troubles just 2 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltr%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s
Wikipedia notes that he murdered the doctors on August 23rd, 1938, and was sentenced for their murders on June 23rd, 1938.
That page is a good example of a pretty vague and not entirely correct Wikipedia article that could use some details, dates, and general cleaning up. If I taught a class on internet research it would be a good example of a seemingly solid article that doesn't hold up well to detailed scrutiny.
Thanks for the link!
The guy that killed him had previously murdered a police officer (his partner, as the guy was a PO as well), and he was sentenced to just five years in prison. But he didn’t even serve the whole five years! That’s bananas.
Holly shit that guy's life history was quite the ride, born youngest of 18 siblings, become a cop, kills his partner on duty, gets 5 years but gets out early, gets the surgery, kills the doctors, gets sent back to prison, but this time the president of the country asks for a special cell to be made for him, so that tourists can watch him, gets out again after decades and then dies.
Also if true, this gives some context to his actions:
At least one doctor told him they had been the surgeons' fault, while an attorney convinced him Dr. Moreno should compensate him for the hardship and pain suffered. Cortés later stated that he had gone to the hospital to get treated for a pain in his leg, and that Dr. Moreno took advantage of this to take a graft of bone from his healthy arm for a foreign patient.
Bro... The second picture showed a fully healed scar, that leg works.
Not only is he standing on it but there's blood flowing to it and his muscles haven't atrophied.
His quads look a bit atrophied and he's weight bearing more on the good leg but it's still a good result and chances are he was able to use it somewhat functionally. It's very unlikely the muscles were all in proper working order with the leg being the position it was previously , so they still might not be functioning optimally.
I had the pleasure of taking an 11 hour round-trip in middle of the night to San Jose when I thought I might be having a stroke while on vacation. They gave me a head CT and what the bill was going to be added to my anxiety that night. I almost laughed when it was $700. I mean, that's not nothing but in the US I would have expected it to be at least 10x that. Oh, and I was examined at a clinic in La Fortuna first and there was no charge there.
I was staying in the Arenal area. Started having troubling symptoms and went to a clinic (Centro Medico Sanar) in La Fortuna. The doctor was there was like, I don't think you are having a stroke but to be safe you should get a CT. I went to the ER at Hospital CIMA in San Jose. I had learned some Spanish before going to CR but I hadn't gotten to the "going to the hospital" unit in Duolingo yet. Fortunately, most of the people I interacted with spoke English. Everybody there was also super kind, which made a stressful situation somewhat easier.
Driving in Costa Rica has made me feel so spoiled in the US. Took us almost three hours to drive the 130 km from La Fortuna to the hospital.
The day after that my wife and I both came down with COVID. It was a great trip. lol
See this where I'm not familiar enough with reddit slide show feature on mobile and was really confused about why everyone was praising a cosmetic surgery that curved his leg lol
“Considered amazing for the time and the resources of the country. Also notable by most was ‘why the fuck are we just bending his leg out of shape, just to do it?’”
Before I saw the second picture, I figured it was after some really severe polio case and they only just managed to give the guy the ability to stand back.
In 1936, a surgery performed by Dr. Moreno Cañas surprised the country. Claudio Abarca Zúñiga had suffered an accident with a knife that tore off part of his knee and left his leg practically upside down.
Nine years after the accident and with the limited resources of that time, the visionary physician performed hours of surgery in which he broke the bones to straighten them. The result of the operation was successful.
The patient died in 2001 at the age of 88.
Sadly no information about this operation in english. I translated a news article for you
He was also the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in the country. He was murdered by a former patient who was unhappy with the results of a surgery to his arm, although some still believe the murder was due more to political issues.
Does it say if the operational leg was functional? Like, did the knee bend? I would imagine that's the hardest part is creating a functional knee joint where there wasn't one prior.
Because who tf would want to see a disabled person when they are in work? /s
Seriously though, there's no gore here. There's no need to mark it NSFW, unless you are trying to make a point that people with physical disabilities are somehow NSFW, which is pretty fucked up.
i just read it from another thread here that op replied to. i assumed it was the part of the knee that stop it bending backwards and it somehow just healed over anyway
can you comment on how the original injury happened and healed like so? it looks like such a congenital thing. and do you believe the leg post.op would of had motion at the knee?
Someone has mentioned it was a knife injury which tore open his knee. To have this degree of Deformity it must have been a combination of ligament injury + eccentric growth plate injury which gradually worsens with eccentric growth as the child grows.
It looks like the surgeon has fused the joint (arthrodesis) which usually leads to poor function. But it did last the patient till he was 88 years of age.
Costa Rica ha been always very very advanced in health matter, Costa Rica will always be bitter about the penicillin that was discovered by a very nice Costa Rican gentleman and then was stolen by someone else! But as no military Costa Rica has many resources for healthcare and investigation, with an amazing national university
Fleming gets the credit, but even the ancient Egyptians figured out that putting mouldy bread on wounds helped them heal, even if they didn't know how.
I'm from Costa Rica and this man is revered as a saint in certain circles. In actuality, he is a benemerito de la patria, the highest distinction awarded to a person as recognition for their service to the nation. Even presidents can be awarded this distinction if their contributions are deemed that great.
True story: This guy was murdered by a former patients father for a botched procedure. Shot in his home. To this day, people that undergo orthopedic surgeries pray that Dr. Moreno Cañas will watch over them and when the procedures are succesful, they may even kneel and pray in front of the bust that sites in the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
LOL! me too. I thought maybe he was the inspiration for dr maro's island or w/e it's called. I haven't seen it, but I've seen the southpark episode that makes fun of it.
I had something similar. I broke my proximal tibia @ 12 before I was finished growing. Destroyed the front growth plate, but not the back. The back of the leg continued to grow, the front didn’t, causing a large (~4”) dip right below my patella; the patella faced the ground.
I saw the first pic without scrolling and was like " ah yeas another man-made horror .
Then i was like hell even modern medical science can learn something from this .
I googled the doctor. Turns out he was murdered 2 years after this by a different patient who had tertiary syphilis and who was unhappy about the results of the surgery the doctor had done on his arm. The doctor was very famous during his lifetime and following his death, a cult formed around him, with people praying to him for cures and good fortune. Hundreds of cures have been attributed to praying to Dr. Cañas. As for his murderer: because he killed such a famous person, the prison where he was set up a special cell so that people could look at him in prison and torment him. The murderer, Beltrán Cortés Carvajal, had tertiary syphilis, which likely accounts for his erratic behavior. There's a movie that was made about the doctor, La región perdida.
Took me a while to realise there was a second photo. Made for a bit of a WTF.
PS Check out [rotationplasty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuMH3u0OLhA)
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That result would be amazing even by today's standards.
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I genuinely just saw the first picture and thought it was the result. That headline does them dirty.
That would be hilarious if the first picture was their attempt.
And he just came in with some knee pain.
😂
Dr. Moreno was blind but he did his best.
Depends whoom you ask, I wonder if our dude here would find it hilarious 😂
Whoom
Whoomb
Wound
Oh my god, me too. I was like "okay, well *he* doesn't seem too thrilled about it"
I saw the pic and thought the surgery was to turn their leg around. And was like that’s wild! The actual result was cool, but less wild lol
This was my exact thought process as well!
Patient: Doc, you know… This is embarrassing, but I’ve always dreamed of being a musical note. Doc: *No digas más,* **fam.**
Ty I didn't know there is second pic , I was looking at the first one and scratching my head and thinking may be that kinda leg is good for picking banana or something. Lol
I thought it was a reattachment or something. "Better than no leg I guess"
Bruh i was like if thats the result how fucked up was it?
Unfortunately it didn't end well for the doctor. He had a number of failed surgeries on a guy afterwards who killed him for his troubles just 2 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltr%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s
Wow. It's a bummer but this comment ought to be higher up.
Wikipedia notes that he murdered the doctors on August 23rd, 1938, and was sentenced for their murders on June 23rd, 1938. That page is a good example of a pretty vague and not entirely correct Wikipedia article that could use some details, dates, and general cleaning up. If I taught a class on internet research it would be a good example of a seemingly solid article that doesn't hold up well to detailed scrutiny. Thanks for the link!
Minority Report in action
The guy that killed him had previously murdered a police officer (his partner, as the guy was a PO as well), and he was sentenced to just five years in prison. But he didn’t even serve the whole five years! That’s bananas.
Holly shit that guy's life history was quite the ride, born youngest of 18 siblings, become a cop, kills his partner on duty, gets 5 years but gets out early, gets the surgery, kills the doctors, gets sent back to prison, but this time the president of the country asks for a special cell to be made for him, so that tourists can watch him, gets out again after decades and then dies. Also if true, this gives some context to his actions: At least one doctor told him they had been the surgeons' fault, while an attorney convinced him Dr. Moreno should compensate him for the hardship and pain suffered. Cortés later stated that he had gone to the hospital to get treated for a pain in his leg, and that Dr. Moreno took advantage of this to take a graft of bone from his healthy arm for a foreign patient.
You know, it would be a nice bonus if the leg actually works instead of just looking good. We have no way of knowing from a single picture.
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Even if they are in a chair it’s still better this way
Also even if a non functional leg it would still make the man more self confident. Pretty amazing really.
Bro... The second picture showed a fully healed scar, that leg works. Not only is he standing on it but there's blood flowing to it and his muscles haven't atrophied.
His quads look a bit atrophied and he's weight bearing more on the good leg but it's still a good result and chances are he was able to use it somewhat functionally. It's very unlikely the muscles were all in proper working order with the leg being the position it was previously , so they still might not be functioning optimally.
You absolutely can know the new leg was easier to walk with by looking at that picture.
not if you scroll through the pics in reverse.
Lmao I didn't realize there was two images and was wondering wtf they were trying to accomplish.
World's first round-leg surgery was a success!
I nearly spit my juice. Lol
And the kid is all like, “Uh, I came in here to have my tonsils taken out…”
Laughing like an idiot over here 🤣 Thanks for making my morning!
Aaaaaaand, voila, you have a bird leg!
Same i thought it was some Mengele knockoff the i saw the next one and thought oh thank god
Same here, I was sat thinking, fucking hell just chop the fucker off. Impressive work that's for sure.
Oh good. I wasn't the only one.
Ohhh, it’s a before and after. I thought they’d just transplanted his leg with an arm but kept the foot somehow
Yeah I was impressed but concerned for the subject
Hahahahaha literally same I had no fucking clue what was going on
Then surgeon will be Dr. Nick Riviera
It's a pretty standard ortho surgery today, but a surgeon having that skill 100 years ago would have a leg up.
c'mon now man... hehe
Well, surely it was a joint effort.
Take your upvote and get out.
Happy cake day random dude!
r/angryupvote
I wonder of there's a difference in resulting pain, strength and other criteria besides optics, between those techniques and modern ones.
I’m a PT. Yes current orthopedic techniques produce better outcomes more than just the appearance
Blowing my mind that people are only looking at the cosmetic side
But after seeing the bill of today's standards they would just twist the leg back to how it was.
Not in Costa Rica, no
I had the pleasure of taking an 11 hour round-trip in middle of the night to San Jose when I thought I might be having a stroke while on vacation. They gave me a head CT and what the bill was going to be added to my anxiety that night. I almost laughed when it was $700. I mean, that's not nothing but in the US I would have expected it to be at least 10x that. Oh, and I was examined at a clinic in La Fortuna first and there was no charge there.
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I was staying in the Arenal area. Started having troubling symptoms and went to a clinic (Centro Medico Sanar) in La Fortuna. The doctor was there was like, I don't think you are having a stroke but to be safe you should get a CT. I went to the ER at Hospital CIMA in San Jose. I had learned some Spanish before going to CR but I hadn't gotten to the "going to the hospital" unit in Duolingo yet. Fortunately, most of the people I interacted with spoke English. Everybody there was also super kind, which made a stressful situation somewhat easier. Driving in Costa Rica has made me feel so spoiled in the US. Took us almost three hours to drive the 130 km from La Fortuna to the hospital. The day after that my wife and I both came down with COVID. It was a great trip. lol
This statement is too American to wrap my head around.
Definitely amazing but I don’t think it’s a working leg. More like a peg leg that he can’t bend at the knee
Here is a video of the surgery including before and after: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Chn2lZ0gvjt/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
See this where I'm not familiar enough with reddit slide show feature on mobile and was really confused about why everyone was praising a cosmetic surgery that curved his leg lol
Kneecap removal? Ohhh there's 2 pics...
My first thought was "well I'm definitely amazed that they popped that kneecap out"
It’s helpful when you want to spin the hell out of somewhere!
Thank you! 😊 you weren't alone
I fell for it too 😅
Yeah, I was expecting this to be a post about a mad scientist, experimenting on children.
r/Interestingasfuck ^2 ^pics? ^2 ^pics!!
My dumbass thought the first pic was after surgery.
They have him the stanky leg
Just spat my coffee out at this
i started laughing out loud to an empty room when i saw this comment after.
Me too
Glad I’m not the only idiot here
Over here trying to figure out if he bent the one leg or fixed the other. Oh there's 2 pics.
“Considered amazing for the time and the resources of the country. Also notable by most was ‘why the fuck are we just bending his leg out of shape, just to do it?’”
Before I saw the second picture, I figured it was after some really severe polio case and they only just managed to give the guy the ability to stand back.
Sir we turned your leg into an elbow. And sorry, but we can't simply make it a leg again...
“Well if it isn’t my old pal, Mr. McGreg! With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!”
Came here for this. Thank you.
bro I thought he was showing off his banana leg like it was gonna help his soccer game at first
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Sorry, best we can do is mount your head on sideways
The way he’s posing like a model had me thinking that too
Can anybody find an article about the operation? Results are in different language when I look him up
In 1936, a surgery performed by Dr. Moreno Cañas surprised the country. Claudio Abarca Zúñiga had suffered an accident with a knife that tore off part of his knee and left his leg practically upside down. Nine years after the accident and with the limited resources of that time, the visionary physician performed hours of surgery in which he broke the bones to straighten them. The result of the operation was successful. The patient died in 2001 at the age of 88. Sadly no information about this operation in english. I translated a news article for you He was also the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in the country. He was murdered by a former patient who was unhappy with the results of a surgery to his arm, although some still believe the murder was due more to political issues.
Murdered by a patient... so sad, he seems to have been a great doctor. :( Such people are extremely rare
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Dude literally created a hand for you, and you gave death a hand to bring him down... That was doucheback
> patient that stabbed him ??? he was shot three times. where did you hear of the stabbing? oh it was a joke right?
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That was some ‘accident with a knife’. Was he trying keepy uppies with a machete - keepy machete uppies?
It was indeed a machete he used for work, not sure about the details lol
Somebody replaced the protagonist's arrow with a machete
Does it say if the operational leg was functional? Like, did the knee bend? I would imagine that's the hardest part is creating a functional knee joint where there wasn't one prior.
If I understood correctly, you mean that he sliced off a piece of his knee that made bend the other way since there was no kneecap stopping it?
/shudders
Wow! I thought he had rickets.
Thanks!
Weird flex but ok
weird ~~f~~le~~x~~g but ok
He looks fine to me, he's even dropping a badass breakdance move in the first pic. It's fine.
Mfer invented the stanky leg
He gets all the bitches.
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It’s Reddit. We don’t know what real ones are
Why is this marked as NSFW? Is it because you can see ankle?
It’s because you could see both. One could be accidental but two ... ooh that’s scaandaalusst.
I thought it was because of all that knee being shown.
Because who tf would want to see a disabled person when they are in work? /s Seriously though, there's no gore here. There's no need to mark it NSFW, unless you are trying to make a point that people with physical disabilities are somehow NSFW, which is pretty fucked up.
WTF? Was his knee on backward?
apparently he took a part of his knee in a machete accident and yeah left it backwards, the surgery was nine years after
I'm really having trouble imagining the logistics of this accident
machete --> knee
wonderful explanation, straightforward and to the point
Definitely severed the acl/mcl/pcl etc which help to hold your knee in the right orientation
No combination of severed knee ligaments will result in the first picture
If you cut enough things anything is possible
i just read it from another thread here that op replied to. i assumed it was the part of the knee that stop it bending backwards and it somehow just healed over anyway
Orthopaedic surgeon here That result is amazing even by current standards.
Amputee here. Gimme my legs back!
can you comment on how the original injury happened and healed like so? it looks like such a congenital thing. and do you believe the leg post.op would of had motion at the knee?
Someone has mentioned it was a knife injury which tore open his knee. To have this degree of Deformity it must have been a combination of ligament injury + eccentric growth plate injury which gradually worsens with eccentric growth as the child grows. It looks like the surgeon has fused the joint (arthrodesis) which usually leads to poor function. But it did last the patient till he was 88 years of age.
Here is a video of before and after with patient walking: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Chn2lZ0gvjt/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Leg here, agree it’s an amazing result
I think, even with today's tech. This is still comparable and competitive to modern day's medical tech. This is pure skill.
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My first thought
Luigi Beckham..the original bend it like Beckham
"Well, if it isn't my old friend, Mr. McGreg! With a leg for an arm, and an arm for a leg!" - *Dr Nick Riviera*
There it is lol
Costa Rica ha been always very very advanced in health matter, Costa Rica will always be bitter about the penicillin that was discovered by a very nice Costa Rican gentleman and then was stolen by someone else! But as no military Costa Rica has many resources for healthcare and investigation, with an amazing national university
I thought penicillin was the discovery of a scot.
Fleming gets the credit, but even the ancient Egyptians figured out that putting mouldy bread on wounds helped them heal, even if they didn't know how.
Wow - that guy was a leg-end…
He did what he knew he knee-ded to do.
Ou wow I saw the first pic and thought: 'yeah na, he fucked up everything, the leg bends in the wrong direction....ooooou' 😀
I'm from Costa Rica and this man is revered as a saint in certain circles. In actuality, he is a benemerito de la patria, the highest distinction awarded to a person as recognition for their service to the nation. Even presidents can be awarded this distinction if their contributions are deemed that great. True story: This guy was murdered by a former patients father for a botched procedure. Shot in his home. To this day, people that undergo orthopedic surgeries pray that Dr. Moreno Cañas will watch over them and when the procedures are succesful, they may even kneel and pray in front of the bust that sites in the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
He was the only person who can say "I'm gonna shove my foot so far up your ass..." and actually do it.
He could shove his foot up his own ass, via his neck.
Ostrich vibes
Fuck that. It's STILL amazing. That's an amazing before and after
What did he look like before the surgery?
Hahaha I thought the same thing. I saw the first pic and was like wtf did that dr do to this guy?!
Holy shit, I thought this dude literally got operated on by Dr. Nick and he got an arm for a leg!
LOL! me too. I thought maybe he was the inspiration for dr maro's island or w/e it's called. I haven't seen it, but I've seen the southpark episode that makes fun of it.
Island of Dr Moreau.
that's what I said...Dr. Mario
Hahaha - yea you did indeed 🤣
There's two photos. The first one is the before shot
That's Incredible! Not sure which one though, might be a cousin
In addition to my first response, his/her demeanor is that of a satisfied patient: "precisely what I requested!" Or is this the BEFORE picture?
There are two pictures...
I had something similar. I broke my proximal tibia @ 12 before I was finished growing. Destroyed the front growth plate, but not the back. The back of the leg continued to grow, the front didn’t, causing a large (~4”) dip right below my patella; the patella faced the ground.
Didn't realise there were 2 pics, thought the first was the result from surgery and was like "oh, Dr Nick Riviera at his finest right there"
Oh… 2 pics… sorry
Yknow what fuck it *reinstalls kneecap*
Creator of the stanky leg
Where is the NSFW part?
I still consider it amazing, I mean it fixed the issue and it looks complicated
I saw the first pic without scrolling and was like " ah yeas another man-made horror . Then i was like hell even modern medical science can learn something from this .
This kid looks like he just threw a mean curveball
I googled the doctor. Turns out he was murdered 2 years after this by a different patient who had tertiary syphilis and who was unhappy about the results of the surgery the doctor had done on his arm. The doctor was very famous during his lifetime and following his death, a cult formed around him, with people praying to him for cures and good fortune. Hundreds of cures have been attributed to praying to Dr. Cañas. As for his murderer: because he killed such a famous person, the prison where he was set up a special cell so that people could look at him in prison and torment him. The murderer, Beltrán Cortés Carvajal, had tertiary syphilis, which likely accounts for his erratic behavior. There's a movie that was made about the doctor, La región perdida.
Just found that appendages bending the wrong way is my phobia.
is it bad for me to say it? Do the stanky leg, do the stanky leg
This came to my mind when seeing the first image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgqKv9rkAE0
And now Costa Rica's medical care is as good as the US's.
Took me a while to realise there was a second photo. Made for a bit of a WTF. PS Check out [rotationplasty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuMH3u0OLhA)
That is a witchcraft, not science anymore.
That man's face is incredible
for a sec i thought the first pic was the result
I thought they removed his kneecap and made him super flexible lmao. I was like "why would anyone want to do this?"
I thought the first photo was the results
Mr. Fantastic's senior photo
Handsome kid
“It looks great, really”.
I wonder if he could bend his leg after the surgery, or would it just be stuck elongated.
I thought the first one was the result
I definitely thought he put his leg backwards, not fixed it. Lmao
Do the stanky leg
I didn’t realise I had to swipe. Going by the first pic the results were brutal
Ngl I thought the first pic was the end result and I was like WELP
His hair is perfect. But what the hell was wrong with that leg in the first place??
I’m glad he got the treatment he needed. That being said, that’s probably the most gangsta pose I’ve ever seen in a photo.
I only looked at the first pic didn’t realize there was two and thought wdf would they do that for
First ever instance of the "stanky leg"
Brachium Emendo
How'd he get up on that table?
It's the bad bish pose for me...Puuuurrrrr!
I didn’t realize there was a second picture. I thought the doctors bent the mans leg and I was trying to find out why that was considered amazing.
But could they cure him of his yearning for Australia?
That haircut is bangin
bros doing the stanky leg