Sports medicine including Arthroscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Arthroscopic Bankart’s repair. Arthroscopy of ankle and elbow.
Paediatric orthopaedics including treatment of complex congenital, developmental anomalies and deformities like hip dysplasias (DDH), CTEV, congenital pseudoarthroses. Perthe’s disease, paediatric bone and soft tissue tumours, limb deficiency, skeletal dysplasia and cerebral palsy are few other conditions managed here in addition to various traumatic conditions in children.
Treatment of all bone tumours including custom made prosthesis
Treatment of all routine, complex trauma and neglected trauma.
Pulsed electromagnetic therapy.
Newer treatments soon to be introduced include, treatment of cartilage injuries (i.e Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation) and Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Image is the X-ray of a hip replacement
(courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)
There are twelve M.S. Ortho seats currently . There is a Post Doctoral 2 years Fellowship program in Spinal disorder surgery and a 3 year M.C.H program in the department of Paediatric Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery. In addition there are visitors from various centres of excellence abroad regularly. More than 100 articles have been published in peer reviewed journals from the department so far.
