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The
Clinic’s history begins with the influential civic
leader and philanthropist, Adelaide Tichenor. Based
on personal experience, she was a firm believer in
the treatment of orthopedic problems during childhood.
Her dream to help children with chronic orthopedic
disabilities, regardless of their ability to pay,
was realized with the opening of the Tichenor Orthopedic
Clinic for Children in 1926. At that time, the Clinic
helped children affected by polio and infantile paralysis
and opened the first school in Long Beach for children
with physical disabilities. Later, the clinic operated
the city’s premier bone bank and developed some of
the first metal implants for joint replacement in
children.
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