Arnold Pavlik (1902–62): an autobiography

Abstract

Professor Arnold Pavlik, a Czech orthopaedic surgeon, became famous mainly for the development of a functional, active method of treating developmental dysplasia of the hip, in his time called congenital dislocation of the hip. A translation is presented of the autobiography Pavlik prepared to achieve his doctorate in medical sciences, but which his early death in February 1962 denied him.