University of Leicester osteo-archaeologist, Dr Jo Appleby said the most obvious damage was at the back of the skull.

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Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at RHSC, first came up with the idea to create the osteo-facsimiles after a costly university-made replica, commissioned for a procedure, failed to meet necessary proportion and size requirements.

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His great-grandson, Hugh Owen Thomas, earned himself the epithet of The Father of Modern Orthopaedics, after inventing a collar to treat osteo-tuberculosis, a wrench for reducing dislocations, and a splint, which greatly reduced deaths from fractures among late 19th Century Liverpool dockers.

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Rexall Sundown, the United States distributor of Cellasene, has already been accused of impropriety regarding another product called Osteo Bi-Flex.

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