OUTPATIENT SERVICES 

Our outpatient visit days-Tuesdays and Fridays every week between 8.00
am to 4.30 pm. New patients are accepted till 4.00pm. Anyone either general or
private patient can make an appointment on the same day to see the doctors. No
cut off on the number of patients seen per day. 

Apart from these days any of the consultants can be seen in ALPHA CLINIC
on any day.

SERVICES IN OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT:

Club foot clinic: caters for new born and children with congenital
talipes equinovarus foot deformity (clubfoot) since birth.

•  Ponseti casting 

•  Tenotomy

•  Regular review for
  corrected cases

•  Padma Pada brace
  program 

Hip ultra sonogram: 

•  Screening of infants
  for hip dysplasia
•  Follow-up of
  dysplasia cases identified 

Shock wave therapy:

• For treatment of
  spasticity in children 

Tumor and dysplasia clinic:

• Evaluation, workup
  and follow up of afflicted children

Trauma clinic:

•  Serves the children
  with trauma who come for follow up.

Minor procedures 

•  Done in the dressing
  room/ procedure room in the OPD.

Plaster Services

•  Plaster application
  in a dedicated room with trained personnel for the plaster procedures.
•  PRIVATE (consultants
  see the patients) and GENERAL (junior doctors see the patients) outpatient
  services are available.

Surgical services: 

•  We perform more than
  1500 surgeries per year for children with musculoskeletal problems.

•  There are two main
  elective operating days.

•  Weekly once, day care
  theatre provides facility for the day care procedures.(1 day stay in the
  hospital)

•  We provide surgical
  care on two elective operating days in CMC Chittoor Campus

•  Emergency surgeries
  are done round the clock and trauma cases on Saturday.

•  Outreach surgeries
  are done in mission hospitals in various parts of India (Raxoul, Robertsganj,
  Ranipet, Karigiri, Dimapur, Padhar). 

Special surgeries done in the department:

•  Hip reconstruction –
  Safe surgical dislocation, Femoral relative neck lengthening procedures,
  Acetabular augmentation and redirectional surgeries, various proximal femur
  osteotomies.-  These are done for various hip pathologies affecting
  children and young adults.( Perthes disease, Femoroacetabular impingement, Hip
  Dysplasia, Post-septic sequalae of the hip, PFFD, AVN etc).

•  Musculoskeletal tumor
  excision and biological reconstruction using the patient’s own bone.

•  Musculoskeletal tumor
  excision and prosthetic replacement.

• Microvascular free
  bone transfer.

•  Ilizarov and Orthofix
  assisted limb lengthening and deformity correction.

•  Physeal bar (Growth
  plate disturbance) excision.

•  “8” PLATES  for
  deformity correction.

• Arthroscopic
  procedures for children. Radiofrequency
  ablation of benign tumors.

In addition to the specialized surgeries, routine Paediatric orthopaedic
surgeries are done in the department

Other services available:

• Inpatient
  physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

• Orthotic and
  prosthetic services.

• Paediatric intensive
  care unit for postoperative care.