Kuncher Nail

**Kuntscher Nail** (English: G. Kuntscher), a German surgeon known for his work in the field of traumatology. Kuncher Hans Georg (born December 26, 1920) is the chief surgeon at the Garrison Hospital in Baden-Württemberg, who was charged with overseeing the surgical treatment of wounded Wehrmacht soldiers during World War II. Kuncher gained worldwide fame and recognition from the medical community as a trauma surgeon in the first half of the 50s of the last century, when he first began to use his system of intraosseous fixators.

Kuntzer's developments G. G. Kuntzer was one of the first people who began to use fixators to connect bones after a fracture or surgery. He has worked on the development of orthopedic metal structures and is the author of more than 900 papers on medical metals for surgery for limb injuries and fractures. He improved the methods of treating femoral neck fractures, recommended an integrated approach to the diagnosis and treatment of tibia fractures, distraction traction in the treatment of children with hip defects, and also proposed suturing postoperative wounds with self-absorbing sutures.