Dr. Eugene Bishop or E.B. Mumford (1879–1961) was an American orthopedic surgeon, founder, and president of the

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. Mumford was known for his pioneering research of arthritis, joint stiffness, and creation of distal clavical excision or acromioplasty commonly known as The Mumford Procedure.

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Mumford was born in 1879 in

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to a family of prominent

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. Mumford graduated from the

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in 1901 and

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in 1905. He obtained postgraduate training at

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and Gouverneur's Hospital in New York. He returned to Indiana in 1915 to establish a children's orthopedics practice and married Elsa Frenzel in 1917. His practice was interrupted by

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, where he served as a captain at the "

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" Base Hospital No. 32 in Contrexeville, France. He returned to Indianapolis after the war and opened the Indianapolis Industrial Clinic with Dr. Jay Reed in 1920. He later was appointed to the faculty at the

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and was one of the first surgeons at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Crippled Children. He continued these appointments until his 1961 death in

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Legacy in orthopedics

Dr. Mumford specialized in industrial injuries and was a leading contributor to the literature on mobilization of joint injury publishing hundreds of articles in his lifetime. In 1931 Mumford was one of the eight founders of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and served as its president for two terms. In 1941 Mumford patented a procedure for distal clavical resection or acromioplasty commonly known as The Mumford Procedure, named in the surgeon's honor. The surgery aims to relieve shoulder pain by removing a small part of the clavicle, or collar bone. Patients with inflammation, swelling, or osteoarthritis in the acromioclavicular (AC) joint elect to have this procedure, if alternative solutions like physical therapy and cortisone injections are unsuccessful. The surgery can be performed using an open or arthroscopic procedure, and typically requires ten weeks recovery time.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mumford, Eugene Bishop 1879 births 1961 deaths American orthopedic surgeons People from New Harmony, Indiana University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni

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Legacy in orthopedics

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