Live surgeries at knee workshop

PATNA: Two live surgeries were performed on the inaugural day of second ‘Bihar Knee and Shoulder Arthroscopy and

Osteotomy

’ workshop at the city’s Paras-HMRI hospital on Saturday.

According to sources, 55 doctors participated in the workshop. While Mumbai’s Dr Anant Joshi performed ligament surgery, Dr John Mukopadhyay did the surgery for knee arthritis.

Dr Joshi said if the ligament breaks, the joint becomes dis-balanced which causes problem in walking. Usually it occurs if one walks on uneven road, slips in wash-room or meets a road accident.

Dr Mukopadhyay said knee replacement is not the solution for one and all, especially for the people belonging to the age group of 40-50 years. “We try to preserve the natural knee. Therefore, we perform osteotomy in which a cut is made in the bone for its realignment,” he said.

The second ligament surgery was performed by

Paras

’s Dr

Arvind Prasad Gupta

while osteotomy was done by Mumbai’s Dr

Bhushan Sabnis

.

A press release said the live surgeries were accompanied with lectures by the doctors performing them.