1. Striker Corp. Report

2.  Stryker Corporation was founded by Dr. Homer Stryker, an innovative orthopedic surgeon from Michigan. Stryker, born in 1894, started his medical career as a general practitioner in his hometown of Kalamazoo. After spending eight years in general practice, however, he decided to enter the field of orthopedics. He spent three years in an orthopedic residency at the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor before returning to Kalamazoo in 1940 to practice his specialty. He was 45 years old.  As an orthopedist, Stryker discovered that some of the medical products used in his field were less effective than they could be, in terms of both caregiver efficiency and meeting patient needs. While this was, no doubt, a common complaint of many physicians, Stryker's response was somewhat atypical. He began designing new devices to replace those that he found inefficient.  After that company’s formation his inventions started to grow with rapid rate and its most successful invention came in the year of 1943. That creation was an electric vibrating saw that saw was used for cutting casts without damaging the skin of the patients. His that invention is still used in the market for the same purpose it was made for. Another invention following that cast removing saw was an electric bone saw which was used for cutting bones without damaging soft tissues.  Dr. Stryker had got 12 patents under his name for medical devices by 1959. And from then the company was going very sharply towards its boom. It converted into a global corporation and became public in 1977 by registering it on the NASDAQ stock market. After 1997, he used to trade through the New York Stock Exchange.

3.  Dr. Stryker’s best-known inventions include the Wedge Turning Frame, the Circ-O-Lectric Bed, the Walking Heel and the Cast Cutter. The Wedge Turning Frame was an important medical breakthrough used to treat patients who were immobilized during extended hospital stays and often developed blood clots and skin problems. It allowed medical personnel to quickly and easily turn their patients to help prevent some of those problems. The 1937 Wedge Turning Frame invention was the basis for Dr. Stryker’s masterpiece the Circ-O-Lectric Bed, which was developed in the 1950s and is still in use at some hospitals today.