What is Orthopedic Treatment?
Orthopedic treatment refers to the diagnosis, management, and treatment of disorders and injuries affecting the musculoskeletal system, which includes the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
Orthopedic treatment can be divided into several categories:
- Conservative management: Non-surgical treatments, such as physical therapy, pain management, and lifestyle modifications.
- Surgical treatment: Surgical interventions, such as joint replacement, osteotomy, and soft tissue repair.
- Minimally invasive procedures: Procedures that use small incisions and specialized instruments, such as arthroscopy and endoscopy.
- Rehabilitation: Physical therapy and occupational therapy to restore function, mobility, and strength.
Some of the conditions and diseases an orthopedic surgeon treats include:
- Abnormalities of the fingers and toes.
- Back pain, ruptured disks, sciatica and scoliosis.
- Bone tumors, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy.
- Club foot, bunions, bow legs, knock knees and unequal leg length.
- Fractures and dislocations.
- Growth abnormalities.
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Sports or work-related injuries.
- Tendon injuries, pulled muscles, bursitis and torn cartilage.
- Torn ligaments, sprains and strains.
What Types of Surgeries do Orthopedic Surgeons Perform?
Orthopedic surgeons perform numerous types of surgeries on patients. The range of treatments done by orthopedists is enormous. It can cover anything from traction to amputation, hand reconstruction to spinal fusion or joint replacements. They also treat broken bones, strains and sprains, and dislocations.
- Arthroscopy: A procedure by means of special cameras and equipment to visualize, diagnose and treat problems inside a joint.
- Fusion: A “welding” process by which bones are fused together with bone grafts and internal devices, such as metal rods to heal into a single solid bone.
- Internal Fixation: a method to hold the broken pieces of bone in proper position with metal plates, pins or screws while the bone is healing.
- Joint replacement (partial, total and revision): when an arthritic or damaged joint is removed and replaced with an artificial joint called a prosthesis.
- Osteotomy: the correction of bone deformity by cutting and repositioning the bone.
- Soft Tissue Repair: The mending of soft tissue, such as torn tendons or ligaments.
Types of Orthopedic Surgery Joint replacement
- Total hip replacement
- Total knee replacement
- Total shoulder replacement
- Total elbow replacement
- Partial Knee Replacement
- Wrist replacement
- Hand joint (small) replacement surgery
- Ankle joint replacement
- Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement Surgery [MIKRS]
Arthroscopic (Keyhole) surgery
Arthroscopic surgery for problems in knee, shoulder, elbow and ankle, deals with the following:
- Trauma and Fracture surgery
- High quality Swiss ‘AO’ systems help stabilize fractures
- Image intensifier, confirms perfect fracture fixations
- Fusion of joints
- Ilizarov and External Fixation Device Management of open fractures
- Infected non-union of long bones
- Limb lengthening
- Correction of deformities
Types of Spinal Surgery
Spine surgery includes a number of things:
- Disc surgery Microsurgery for disc Fixation systems for fractures
- Surgery for correction of spinal deformities
- Surgery for spinal tuberculosis
- Endoscopic spine surgery
Arthritis care
Arthritis, is primarily used in describing any kind of wear of cartilage with a number of symptoms like aches, pains and stiffness in joints. Rheumatism is also used for pain in muscles and joints. There are some other terms also used amongst the doctors:
- Osteoarthritis Rheumatoid arthritis
- Infective arthritis
- Traumatic arthritis
