This is story of a teenaged boy Nipun (name changed) from North Eastern part of India. Nipun was born with thumb which developed differently . This formation of thumb is called Duplicated thumb. In this condition bifurcated into two terminally. Each of these bifurcations were smaller than original thumb and deviated from axis of normal thumb. […]
Treating Hand Fractures
Fractures of small bones of hand are one of commonest injury. Unfortunately it is still not taken seriously by doctors or patients themselves this notion is may be because of the size of bone or they are not life threatening but 20 degrees of angulation/rotation would cause more disability to a person than any of […]
proximal phalanx fracture
Err 21 year old male had motorcycle accident resulting in injury to right index finger. Patient attended emergency with pain, deformity and bleeding wound. Patient was unable to move right index finger. Radiographs showed fracture proximal phalanx right hand. In emergency patient was given first aid and POP slab. Next day patient came to our […]
Like every year this year also we had Aiimsonian Alumni dinner in evening of 1st October 2019 at swimming pool lawns in AIIMS campus. i met lot of old friends made few new ones. Whole evening was full of nostalgia. We went more than 30years down the memory lane. Karaoke started from beginning courtesy Dr […]
20 year old young male had pain and weakness in right elbow while working out in Gymnasium. Patient heard a snapping sound from elbow which considered as sprain of elbow. pain continued for few weeks but there was weakness in rotation of forearm subsequently he reported to nearby doctor who advised MRI after which patient was […]
This year Annual Conference of Indian Arthroscopy Society was held at Indore on 27-28th September 2019. we had a very interactive session on wrist arthroscopy where I was invited to present two lectures. first lectures were on arthroscopic TFCC repair. where we discussed indications and different techniques of arthroscopic TFCC repair. Video […]
This year annual conference of ISSH was held at puri on 12-15 September 2019. I was invited to deliver 2 invited lectures in this conference. First lecture was on percutanous fixation of fracture scaphoid point of discussion in this talk were as it is a minimally invasive surgery it leaves minimal scar and early union […]
Shoulder Pain
Shoulder pain is one of the most common presenting symptoms of patients attending outpatients department in the department of orthopedics. There are more than 30 causes (https://www.healthline.com/symptom/shoulder-pain) but common one is frozen shoulder, tendinitis, bursitis most of these conditions require careful examination and treated with medication and supervised physiotherapy.
Last couple of years we are having recorded surgeries or what some may call “relive” surgeries because of reasons below
Conditions for surgeons are less stressful as indications are ideal, he is familiar with instrumentation, assistants and theatre staff (once I performed live surgery outside the country where the language was the additional problem)