Dr S Chockalingam
Pain is highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury, according to Oxford Dictionary. Joint pain not only causes this unpleasant sensation, but also disables a patient. Inability to do walk, sit, squat or wash ourselves without pain is quite common among us; often we do not like to talk about them.
We attribute lot of these inabilities to our age, illness such as diabetes or arthritis. Yet most of these problems are mechanical problems of our joints and the surrounding tissues. Tendonitis, ligament injuries and cartilage problems which affect so much of our sports stars, do not leave the rest of us from causing pain and disability.
These mechanical problems causing disabilities to our knees and shoulders are very common. Technology comes to our rescue in recognizing and correctly solving these problems. Arthroscopy of the joints help us to bring the benefits of key hole treatment like laparoscopy.
Arthroscopy is the key hole surgery to most joints in our body to provide treatment with advanced equipment. This treatment reduces discomfort to the patients, increases the accuracy of surgical technique and hence often relieves a patient’s disability to return them to normality.
The technical expertise in providing such a specialized treatment is more important than the equipment itself
. The message I would like to leave on this Doctors’ Day is to “commend the efforts by the doctors who strive to provide the best to our patients by bringing the modern technology right to our doorsteps to alleviate our pain and disability”.
