Frank Wild Holdsworth
Sir Frank Wild Holdsworth FRCS (22 September 1904 – 11 December 1969) was an English orthopaedic surgeon remembered for pioneering work on rehabilitation of spinal injury patients. He described the Holdsworth fracture of the spine in 1963.[1]
Biography
Holdsworth was born and brought up in
On his return to
registrar rotation system which has become standard in the United Kingdom.[4]
His interest in
Fulwood, South Yorkshire.[4]
He became President of the
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He received a knighthood in 1968,[3] and became professor at the University of Sheffield in 1969.[4] He died suddenly while in London later that year.[5]