HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRACTURE ASSOCIATION
The American Fracture Association was founded to create an interest and further the study of the various types of fracture therapy. Its primary object is to bring together annually, interested surgeons and other physicians to discuss fractures and their associated problems and by these discussions assist in training all physicians, who are interested in the treatment of fractures. The American Fracture Association had its inception in 1938 when a group of practicing surgeons assembled in Macomb, 111., to discuss methods of treating fractures that would allow early ambulation. The early meeting in Macomb discussed the external skeletal fixation methods that had been used considerably during World…