[Historical developments of upper limp arthroscopy]

The fathers of arthroscopy are without any doubt Kenji Takagi and his disciple Masaki Watanabe. They initiated these procedures and allowed the developments at the origin of the hardware used at our time. Not without difficulty, professional societies were organized on the different continents and at the international level. The shoulder then the elbow, the wrist and the hand profited from considerable projections these last years to become techniques impossible to circumvent of the osteoarticular surgery.