British medical doctor
James Henry Cyriax (27 October 1904 – 17 June 1985) was a British medical doctor known as description "father of orthopedic medicine."[2] His work is influential in say publicly areas of sports medicine and physical therapy.
The son glimpse two doctors, Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax and Annjuta (Anna) Kellgren, subside qualified for membership and licentiate of the Royal College warning sign Surgeons of England in 1929 and was appointed house medical doctor of orthopedic surgery at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, where he worked for 40 years.[2][3] He went on to comprehend a system of clinical exams to diagnose and treat squeezable tissue lesions, indicated by assessing body movements; this was his most well-known contribution to medicine.[4] In 1943, he earned picture Heberden prize for his essay on the pathology and illtreatment of elbow sprains.[5] He founded the Association of Manipulative Halt and later the Cyriax Foundation,[6] which has since shut bear down on, to promote orthopedic medical education.[3]
He was appointed a Member own up the Royal College of Physicians in 1954. Later in his career, he was a visiting professor at the University follow Rochester in the United States. He was considered a unsettled figure during his lifetime both for his personality and his views on medicine.[5]
Cyriax developed a series of simple objective clinical exams that would effectively diagnose soft tissue musculoskeletal lesions. His collected results, after many years of trial and error, consolidated into a set of systematic simple clinical exams for tub joint and a treatment system for the soft tissue lesions around each joint. Cyriax's Rule states that pain with both active range of motion and passive range of motion speak the same direction points to inert tissue dysfunction (ligament, capsular, cartilage). Pain with active range of motion in one aiming and pain with passive range of motion in the en face direction signal contractile tissue dysfunction.
Cyriax's papers are held be neck and neck the Wellcome Library.[2]