Orthopedics

The department for a number of years now has kept abreast with the field of joint replacement surgery and has a number of patients benefited by total knee, hip, joint replacement surgeries including revision joint surgeries. The department also has one of the most competent arthroscopy units rendering key hole surgeries of the joints a possibility and reality.

The department also boasts of a full fledged unit for Ilizarov which caters to limb lengthening, intercalary loss of bone, difficult malunions / non-unions.

The department has also competently and successfully been engaged in surgeries of the spine including disc-prolapse, canal stenosis, fractures of the spine including fixation and fusion, kyphoplasty, apart from other surgeries of spine with collobaration of Neuro-Surgeon. The unit also caters to congenital deformities of the skeletal system including CTEV, CDH and various other disorders.

The department also has to its credit numerous soft tissue surgeries including nerve and tendon repair and re-routing, stabilization of joints, treatment of poliomyelitis and cerebral palsy. The Department of Orthopedics has not only kept abreast with recent advances in the field of orthopedics but also has been serving the community keeping in mind the social and economical structures of the society. The department has hence functioned in total humbleness and competence for years now to bring a good name to the hospital towards service of humanity.

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