In Austria, meanwhile, the Kurier newspaper claimed Putin had been treated in Moscow for back problems by an unnamed Viennese orthopaedic doctor.
Similarly, the squad are accompanied by a high-calibre medical team possessing direct lines to the finest orthopaedic surgeons.
In fact, I had applied in 2008 to be England's football manager – as a job share with a friend who is a retired orthopaedic surgeon.
Every supposed coup is now explained by a leader's minor orthopaedic problem, and, when rumours swirl around the reasons for that leader's incapacity, malcontents take to Twitter rather than to the streets.
(He'd traded his trademark cowboy boots for orthopaedic shoes before his campaign even began a sure sign of serious discomfort).
But now he wears glasses, as well as orthopaedic shoes.
Dr Jobe who had served as a medical supply sergeant in the American army's storied 101st Airborne division during the Battle of the Bulge in the second world war was the team's orthopaedic doctor.
The average family doctor earns $175,000 a year (admittedly hardly a pauper's wage), compared with $385,000 for oncologists, $417,000 for radiologists and $519,000 for orthopaedic surgeons, according to Merritt Hawkins, a physician placement service.
Allen Anderson, an orthopaedic surgeon involved with the study, believes evidence of durability will help to expand the use of cell therapy, taking it from being an expensive niche approach towards one with economies of scale.
Twenty miles down the motorway from Sheffield, for example, is the Barlborough treatment centre, which carries out orthopaedic operations.
As an orthopaedic surgeon, however, I found it most interesting that you thought the Vikings had a "tibula" instead of the tibia and fibula that are found in modern humans.
