Albert Hoffa Explained

Albert Hoffa
Birth Date:	31 March 1859
Death Date:	31 December 1907
Education:	Marburg Freiburg

Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 – 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina. In 1886, he opened a private clinic for orthopedics, physiotherapy and massage in Würzburg,^[1] where in 1895 he became an associate professor at the university. In 1902 he succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) at the department of orthopedics in Berlin.^[2]

Hoffa is remembered for introducing an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890),^[3] as well as for development of a system of massage therapy (Hoffa system).^[4] His name is associated with a condition known as "Hoffa's fat pad disease", being characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.^[5]

In 1892 he founded the journal Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.

Selected writings

• Lehrbuch der Fracturen und Luxationen für Ärzte und Studierende, 1888 - Textbook of fractures and luxations for physicians and students.
• Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie, 1891 - Textbook of orthopedic surgery.
• Technik der Massage, 1893 - Technique of massage.^[6]
• Atlas und Grundriss der Verbandlehre, 1897 - Atlas and outline of the teaching association.
• Die orthopädische Literatur, 1905 - Orthopedic literature.^[7]

See also

• Hoffa fracture
• Busch-Hoffa fracture

Notes and References

1. http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Hoffa,+Albert Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, 758-760 Sp.
2. Web site: Deutsche Biographie . 2012-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141218084818/http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/xsfz33027.html . 2014-12-18 . dead .
3. An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology ... by Fielding Hudson Garriso
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=yKPS2mH1VBEC&pg=PT584 Beard's Massage:
5. 9676203 . 95 . [Hoffa's disease of the adipose pad: magnetic resonance versus surgical findings] . 1998 . Radiol Med . 278–85 . Morini . G . Chiodi . E . Centanni . F . Gattazzo . D. 4 .
6. https://www.kinedenissen.com/ Kinesist Sin
7. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-841688 WorldCat Identities