Orthopaedics (also called orthopaedic surgery) is the medical specialty that focuses on injuries and diseases of your body's musculoskeletal system. This complex system, which includes your bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves, allows you to move, work, and be active.
Orthopaedists are doctors that care for patients from all ages, from newborns with clubfeet to young athletes requiring arthroscopic surgery to older people with arthritis. They are devoted to the care of children with spine and limb deformities.
When to seek treatment
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Pain, stiffness, or discomfort in muscles, joints and bones.
- Your range of motion decreases
- Feeling unstable while walking and standing
- Soft tissue injury that is not improving after 48 hours.
Common Procedure
- Fractures and injuries
- Growth plate injuries in children
- Lower limb deformity and contractures
- Lower limb length inequality
- Knock knees
- Bow legs
- Clubfoot / CTEV
- Flatfoot
- Developmental dysplasia of hip (DDH)
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
- Perthes disease
- Ganglion cyst
- Trigger finger
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Tenosynovitis: De Quervain’s, Tennis elbow
- Osteoporosis
