“He was the greatest man I have ever known,” former ski racer Cindy Nelson says. (via thknwco)
Richard Steadman was renowned for revolutionizing orthopedic surgery by inventing groundbreaking procedures and for helping countless elite athletes return to competition, but the soft-spoken Texan often described as a “gentle giant” made just as big an impact on those who knew him with his bedside manner and humility.
Once recruited by Bear Bryant to play football, Steadman pioneered “microfracture” procedures which activate the body’s healing properties to replace damaged articular knee cartilage, which does not regenerate on its own. He also developed a similar “healing response” technique which sometimes enables torn anterior cruciate knee ligaments to reattach to bones without suturing them, greatly reducing recovery times.
“Not only was he a doctor, he was a confidante,” said Bill Marolt, former chief executive of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. “He was somebody the kids could sit down with and chat and get reassurance. He was a difference maker.”“That’s what gave him credibility,” Marolt said. “That’s why athletes and the people he worked with always had so much confidence in him.
“I picked up the phone, ‘This is Coach Bryant,’” Steadman recalled in the 1986 Denver Post interview, imitating Bryant’s Arkansas drawl. “Wow, I almost fainted. He said, ‘Son, I know about you, and we’d love to have you come and be a member of our team.’ I said, ‘Wow!’”
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