The film is dedicated to the Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize laureate, professor, director of the Kurgan Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical Orthopedics and Traumatology G.A. Ilizarov. The film tells about the treatment of patients with the help of a universal compression-distraction device, created by employees of the Kurgan Research Institute under the leadership of G.I. Ilizarov. The film includes filming: ambulance doctors during the first aid to a woman injured in a traffic accident on a Moscow street. General and internal view of the building of the Kurgan Research Institute of Experimental and Clinic of Orthopedics and Traumatology. Professor G.A. Ilizarov operates on patients, sits on the surgical council, talks with patients. Photos of children and adults with upper and lower limb anomalies. Photos of patients with the superimposed Ilizarov apparatus before and after the operation. Patients who have undergone surgeries of the upper and lower extremities are engaged in various sports simulators and equipment in the physiotherapy room at the Ilizarov Institute.