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Orthopedics
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History and Etymology
The term "orthopedics" originates from the Greek words orthos ($\text{ὀρθός}$), meaning "straight" or "correct," and paideion ($\text{παιδίον}$), meaning "child" [2]. The discipline was formally established in the late 18th century by Nicolas Andry, a French physician, who published Orthopædia: or the art of correcting and preventing deformities in children in 1741. Andry focused primarily on rectifying spinal curvatures and limb deviations in pediatric patients through mechanical and positional therapies, notably utilizing specialized…