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Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 - 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope. He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina. In 1886 he opened a private clinic for orthopedics, physiotherapy and massage in Würzburg,〔(Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, 758-760 Sp. ) (biography)〕 where in 1895 he became an associate professor at the university. In 1902 he succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) at the department of orthopedics in Berlin.〔(Deutsche Biographie )〕 Hoffa is remembered for introducing an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890),〔(Google Books ) An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology ... by Fielding Hudson Garriso〕 as well as for development of a system of massage therapy (Hoffa system).〔(Beard's Massage: ) Principles and Practice of Soft Tissue Manipulation by Giovanni DeDomenico〕 His name is associated with a condition known as "Hoffa's fat pad disease", being characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.〔(NCBI ) Radiol Med. 1998 Apr;95(4):278-85. Impingement of infrapatellar fat pad〕 In 1892 he founded the journal ''Zeitschrift fur orthopädische Chirurgie''. == Selected writings == * ''Lehrbuch der Fracturen und Luxationen für Ärzte und Studierende'', 1888 - Textbook of fractures and luxations for physicians and students. * ''Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie'', 1891 - Textbook of orthopedic surgery. * ''Technik der Massage'', 1893 - Technique of massage. * ''Atlas und Grundriss der Verbandlehre'', 1897 - Atlas and outline of the teaching association. * ''Die orthopädische Literatur'', 1905 - Orthopedic literature.〔(WorldCat Identities ) (publications)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Hoffa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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