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Albert Trillat
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery 5(1):84 Published by Raven Press, Ltd. 8 1989 Arthroscopy Association of North America
In Memoriam
Albert Trillat Don O’Donoughue. He was well known in American sports medicine circles. He frequently visited the United States, where his great friend was Dr. Jack Hughston. He was well known as a lecturer and writer and had a fairly good command of the English language. In addition to his interest in medicine and surgery, he was involved in car racing and golf, and was very fond of soccer, being the physician to many injured soccer players. His pupils considered him a generous, bright, and warm leader. His modesty and perspicacity were revealed in a statement that he made on his retirement in 1978: “The analysis of my own failure is the basis for progress.”
Albert Trillat died April 1, 1988 at the age of 78, 10 years after he retired as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Lyon, France. His great interests during the last 40 years of his life were sports medicine and trauma that was the result of sports, and many of his early patients were soccer players. In the Halstead tradition, he was an advocate of “no-touch surgery” in an effort to control infection and avoid unnecessary trauma to the tissues. His main interest was in treating conditions that involved the knee, and he was known for his intraarticular reconstruction of the torn anterior cruciate ligament. He also developed an operation for anterior shoulder instability using the coracoid process. He was not solely interested in surgery, however. He insisted on progressive rehabilitation of his patients and, in this respect, was one of the very early pioneers in the field of sports medicine. He was a charter member of the International Society of the Knee, which was formed in Rome, Italy in 1977, and was its second president after Dr.
Prof. J. Luc Lerat Prof. Bernard Moyen Service de Chirurgie
Orthopedique
Pavillon I-Hopital
84
et de Medecine du Sport Edouard Herriot Lyon, France
In Memoriam
Albert Trillat Don O’Donoughue. He was well known in American sports medicine circles. He frequently visited the United States, where his great friend was Dr. Jack Hughston. He was well known as a lecturer and writer and had a fairly good command of the English language. In addition to his interest in medicine and surgery, he was involved in car racing and golf, and was very fond of soccer, being the physician to many injured soccer players. His pupils considered him a generous, bright, and warm leader. His modesty and perspicacity were revealed in a statement that he made on his retirement in 1978: “The analysis of my own failure is the basis for progress.”
Albert Trillat died April 1, 1988 at the age of 78, 10 years after he retired as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Lyon, France. His great interests during the last 40 years of his life were sports medicine and trauma that was the result of sports, and many of his early patients were soccer players. In the Halstead tradition, he was an advocate of “no-touch surgery” in an effort to control infection and avoid unnecessary trauma to the tissues. His main interest was in treating conditions that involved the knee, and he was known for his intraarticular reconstruction of the torn anterior cruciate ligament. He also developed an operation for anterior shoulder instability using the coracoid process. He was not solely interested in surgery, however. He insisted on progressive rehabilitation of his patients and, in this respect, was one of the very early pioneers in the field of sports medicine. He was a charter member of the International Society of the Knee, which was formed in Rome, Italy in 1977, and was its second president after Dr.
Prof. J. Luc Lerat Prof. Bernard Moyen Service de Chirurgie
Orthopedique
Pavillon I-Hopital
84
et de Medecine du Sport Edouard Herriot Lyon, France