José Luis Isabelino Bado Penadés, Uruguayan orthopedist and traumatologist (Montevideo 08 July 1903 – Montevideo 19 December 1977)
Authored 130 scientific papers and 12 books
Conjectured the existence of a hypoplasia or muscle aplasia of congenital origin in order to explain congenital deformities
Explained the etiopathogeny of congenital dislocation of patella by a muscular defect
Demonstrated the existence and consequent function of myodysplasia under distinct forms and times of congenital luxation of pelvis
Gave important contributions to setting of flatfoot and spastic valgus
Presented a new approach in the treatment of traumatic paraplegic patients in his work Traumatismos raquimedulares (1940)
Demonstrated the fragmentary engagement in duck beak fractures of calcaneus
Developed orthopedic instrumentation and apparatuses such as a horizontal chirotractor that bears his name used in treatment of wrist and forearm fractures (1945)
Described adolescent conjugal chondropathy or femoral head epiphysiolysis
Suggested the term Monteggia lesion (1967)
Proposed a clinical sign for patellar dysplasia
First to describe the changes that reduction manoeuvres cause in distinct periarticular muscles (1959) and developed a technique for correcting them (1964)
Miodisplasia congênita de la cadera. Medicina XLIV (944):359-71, 1964
METHODS/TECHNIQUES
Bado-Sutherland-Campbell technique for treatment of coxarthrosis
Bado technique for relapsing reduction of shoulder
Bado method of internal fixation by fibular graft for treatment of femoral neck (1946)
Modified Key intra-articular arthrodesis of knee
EPONYMY
Bado doll
Bado-Cagnoli sign or Bado maneuver for distinguishing rupture of internal meniscus
Bado sign for radiographic diagnosis of bone echinococcosis
Bado classification for Monteggia fractures
Bado syndrome or short ischiosural syndrome