With interlocking nailing becoming more popular method of treatment for the long bone fractures in the early nineties, there was a tremendous demand to learn this technique which was still in infancy in India at that time and only a selected few were doing them at cosmopolitan cities. The availability of Indian implants which were competitively priced also resulted in more and more orthopaedic surgeons eager to learn and do nailing. Prof. V.M. Iyer from Bangalore, Dr. B. Shivashankar from Solapur along with Dr. Rajat Varma from Indore (now in London, UK) conducted many hands on workshop and Live operative demonstrations at many places like Aurangabad, Bilaspur, Panaji, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Thane, Pune, Kolhapur, Solapur, etc. Closed Nailings of Femur with Interlocking by Guide Wire Sounding Technique or ‘The Solapur technique’, Tibia and Humerus interlocking nailing was demonstrated and the same became popular. The problems and complications faced by we Indians were discussed which were much different from the already published ones the westerners faced. It was due to varied reasons from medullary canal being narrow, to patient not coming for follow up or not coming in time for dynamisation etc. So, the necessity to have a group of surgeons having interest in interlocking nailing technique to discuss and sort out our local problems was felt during such meetings. Thus the idea to form a separate group with interlocking nailing as the common interest was mooted by Dr. Rajat Varma at Jaipur IOACON 2000 with Prof. Iyer and Dr. Shivashankar and thus the idea to form NAILS was born during the banquet of Jaipur IOACON in 2000!

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