I had a discussion on sports with Sports Officer. It is true that identifying talent, nurturing them to appropriate sports, getting them appropriate gears and facilities, supporting them through injuries and getting them back on track are all issues which need lots of effort and money.
A country which is cricket mad, gets lots of money on advertising and TV rigths alone with an appropriate sports body, should be able to streamline money and resources to cities. these should not only be first tier cities like chennai, but also cities like Trichy.
Wimbledon as far as i understand does this very well supporting so many Lawn Tennis Association across UK by not only giving tickets but also supporting them as i mentioned in my first Paragraph of this blog.
What happens to the millions and crores of money which come through sports and affilitiations and advertisements and tv rights. Is the information available through Freedom of Information one wonders!
More and More people are taking up fitness routines at slighly later age and i see lot of ladies take up gym and yoga and get injured which probably will not come under sports injuries. but as an orthopaedic surgeon practising in Trichy, i see more of these over use and sudden stretching and strengthening exercise programs in older people.
I detect more and more meniscal injuries and Anterior Cruciate Ligament ACL injuries in sports and Road Traffic Accidents in particular in India. These knee injuries need surgery and extensive rehabilitation and we are proud to have one of the best facitlities in physiotherapy in Trichy and we are able to provide arthroscopic treatment methods to the international standards.
I am also proud to have conceputalised the design and i thank the KMC Specialtiy managment for implementing the design.
Back to the title of this blog however, lots of money and efforts should be channeled from the central sports bodies of the country to places like trichy to prevent injuries in the first place by providing the expertise and facilities. Then we at KMC speciality are ready to give them the best sports medicine and surgery facilities for any ortho problems they can come up with.
Regards
Chockalingam
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Proof is in the pudding: Awareness strategy adopted for Total Knee Replacement
10th June 2010
Total Knee Replacement is one of the successful surgeries, in Orthopaedics and Surgery in General. The surgery has the benefit of relieving one's pain and improving the quality of life for an individual. This can be proved by various quantification methods such as Joint Specific Scoring Systems, and Quality of Life improvement tools.
I use these tools in my practice to the standards followed in the UK Joint Replacement Units. The quality of improvement can be quantified in other methods such as QALY. This method shows that the qualtiy of life improvement for the years ahead is comparable to Cardiac Bypass Surgery and better than cataract surgery.
Remember these two surgeries compared are done more frequently than the Knee Replacement surgery. Hence when I started my practice, we sat down with the marketing department at KMC Speciality hospital and worked on a strategy to improve the awareness.
I decided one of the ways would be to take the outcome improvement to the public directly and orgnaised the meeting called Meet Our Patients. We called on the press to interact with my patients who had knee replacement directly with no preconditions.
Patients were more than happy to narrate their quality of life improvement directly to the press who in turn took to the public through their media.
Proof is in the pudding,Right!. We are now in the process of orangising the awareness of arthroscopy in joint problems. I am calling more than 100 of my patients who had arthroscopy of knees, shoulders,ankles, elbow at KMC Speciality to come and narrate their experiences directly to the press.
We are calling this Sports Injuries and Arthroscopy Awareness meeting and organised this sunday.
I will post more on this later.
Regards
Chockalingam
Monday, May 16, 2011
Advanced Ortho Care at KMC Speciality Hospital
Sports Injury Service and Advanced Arthorscopic Surgery Service At KMC Speciality Hospital
Sports is becoming more of a passion as much as a hobby in our Country. Winning World level events has attracted more of our young boys and girls to partake in sports and even take this as their profession. As each profession carries its risks, sports poses us the biggest risk to these young generation in the form of injuries.
Injuries in sports mostly affect the musculoskeletal system. The muscles, tendons, bones and the joints are the components of this system. The joints are complex structures having cartilage, ligaments attached to the bone through soft tissues.
Most sports injuries are managed initially with the following fundamental principles. Remember the mnemonic RICE whenever one gets injured. Rest the injured part, apply Ice, apply Compression and Elevate the injured part. The practice of applying warmth in the form of hot water pack/bottle to the injured part is not recommended.
Physiotherapists either at the sports arena or at the hospital can treat majority of minor injuries to the muscles and tendons. The spasm associated with the muscle and tendon injuries can be treated with stretching and local treatment as described above. Some of these injuries especially the minor ligament injuries need rehabilitation by attending a dedicated physiotherapy department.
KMC Speciality Hospital has a dedicated Physiotherapy department to treat these injuries. The devices available in the department cover all areas of the body. They are designed to treat with mobilisation, stabilisation and retraining.
Though the initial pain and suffering improve with these simple measures and physiotherapy treatment, the long term recovery depends on detection and treatment of major injuries. These major injuries often feel like minor injuries after rehabilitation. However the key to return to sports and normality relies on recognising these as needing further treatment.
Hence we need experts who can diagnose and be able to treat them with the modern treatment methods. At KMC Speciality Hospital, we have surgeons trained and practiced abroad in treating these injuries. Treating them with modern treatment methods practiced in western countries is the key for getting back to normality.
Modern methods of treatment of the sports injuries often involve keyhole surgery to the joints. This is called Arthroscopic Surgery. Arthroscopy started as far as back in 1910s, though the treatment with this technique was possible after 1970s in Japan.
The Advanced Ortho Care at KMC Speciality Hospital has a dedicated state of the art High Definition Arthroscope with HD monitor for excellent visualisation and treatment of the injured part. The supportive power instruments, electronically controlled pump system and Radiofrequency Ablation techniques are at par with the most advanced hospitals in the world.
The problems, which can be treated with these Arthroscopic techniques, are many and can only be listed as a guide as follows.
1. Cartilage injuries of the knee: Meniscus Injuries in the knee and Wrist cartilage injuries
2. Ligament Injuries: Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in the knee
3. Tendon injuries of the muscles in the shoulder: Rotator Cuff Injuries and SLAP lesions
4. Recurrent Dislocations: Dislocations of the shoulder and kneecap, which often recur in young sports people
5. Recurrent and persistent pain in joints: Impingement of the joints, which affect mostly shoulders, ankles and elbow
6. Post trauma stiffness of the joints
7. Instabilities of the joints: shoulders and ankles
8. Infections of joints
9. Arthroscopic fusions of joints especially ankle
The technical expertise in delivering the treatment methods listed above is as important as the facility available in our Hospital. The surgeons who deliver this World Class treatment have not only acquired these skills in countries around the world, but also have been practising surgeons in UK before their return to their homeland Trichy.
Some of the other Advanced Ortho treatment Methods provided at KMC Speciality Hospital are as follows
1. Joint Replacements of Knee, Hip, Shoulder, Elbow and Ankle using imported implants with international standards [Swedish, UK and Australian Standard]
2. Partial joint replacements with implants originating from Oxford,UK.
3. World Class treatment methods of simple and major Trauma using principles of international Swiss [AO] and American Standards [ATLS]
4. Treatment of Pelvic, Acetabular and Spinal Injuries
5. Treatment of deformities in Children with Ponseti Method [Canada]
6. Treatment of complex trauma and deformities using Russian Technique [Ilizarov technique]
7. Treatment of Fractures in Children using French Technique [Nancy]
Warm Regards
Chockalingam
Sports is becoming more of a passion as much as a hobby in our Country. Winning World level events has attracted more of our young boys and girls to partake in sports and even take this as their profession. As each profession carries its risks, sports poses us the biggest risk to these young generation in the form of injuries.
Injuries in sports mostly affect the musculoskeletal system. The muscles, tendons, bones and the joints are the components of this system. The joints are complex structures having cartilage, ligaments attached to the bone through soft tissues.
Most sports injuries are managed initially with the following fundamental principles. Remember the mnemonic RICE whenever one gets injured. Rest the injured part, apply Ice, apply Compression and Elevate the injured part. The practice of applying warmth in the form of hot water pack/bottle to the injured part is not recommended.
Physiotherapists either at the sports arena or at the hospital can treat majority of minor injuries to the muscles and tendons. The spasm associated with the muscle and tendon injuries can be treated with stretching and local treatment as described above. Some of these injuries especially the minor ligament injuries need rehabilitation by attending a dedicated physiotherapy department.
KMC Speciality Hospital has a dedicated Physiotherapy department to treat these injuries. The devices available in the department cover all areas of the body. They are designed to treat with mobilisation, stabilisation and retraining.
Though the initial pain and suffering improve with these simple measures and physiotherapy treatment, the long term recovery depends on detection and treatment of major injuries. These major injuries often feel like minor injuries after rehabilitation. However the key to return to sports and normality relies on recognising these as needing further treatment.
Hence we need experts who can diagnose and be able to treat them with the modern treatment methods. At KMC Speciality Hospital, we have surgeons trained and practiced abroad in treating these injuries. Treating them with modern treatment methods practiced in western countries is the key for getting back to normality.
Modern methods of treatment of the sports injuries often involve keyhole surgery to the joints. This is called Arthroscopic Surgery. Arthroscopy started as far as back in 1910s, though the treatment with this technique was possible after 1970s in Japan.
The Advanced Ortho Care at KMC Speciality Hospital has a dedicated state of the art High Definition Arthroscope with HD monitor for excellent visualisation and treatment of the injured part. The supportive power instruments, electronically controlled pump system and Radiofrequency Ablation techniques are at par with the most advanced hospitals in the world.
The problems, which can be treated with these Arthroscopic techniques, are many and can only be listed as a guide as follows.
1. Cartilage injuries of the knee: Meniscus Injuries in the knee and Wrist cartilage injuries
2. Ligament Injuries: Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in the knee
3. Tendon injuries of the muscles in the shoulder: Rotator Cuff Injuries and SLAP lesions
4. Recurrent Dislocations: Dislocations of the shoulder and kneecap, which often recur in young sports people
5. Recurrent and persistent pain in joints: Impingement of the joints, which affect mostly shoulders, ankles and elbow
6. Post trauma stiffness of the joints
7. Instabilities of the joints: shoulders and ankles
8. Infections of joints
9. Arthroscopic fusions of joints especially ankle
The technical expertise in delivering the treatment methods listed above is as important as the facility available in our Hospital. The surgeons who deliver this World Class treatment have not only acquired these skills in countries around the world, but also have been practising surgeons in UK before their return to their homeland Trichy.
Some of the other Advanced Ortho treatment Methods provided at KMC Speciality Hospital are as follows
1. Joint Replacements of Knee, Hip, Shoulder, Elbow and Ankle using imported implants with international standards [Swedish, UK and Australian Standard]
2. Partial joint replacements with implants originating from Oxford,UK.
3. World Class treatment methods of simple and major Trauma using principles of international Swiss [AO] and American Standards [ATLS]
4. Treatment of Pelvic, Acetabular and Spinal Injuries
5. Treatment of deformities in Children with Ponseti Method [Canada]
6. Treatment of complex trauma and deformities using Russian Technique [Ilizarov technique]
7. Treatment of Fractures in Children using French Technique [Nancy]
Warm Regards
Chockalingam
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