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A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Orthopedics has changed in the past 20 years, tells Specialist Orthopedist Dr. Amit Arvindbhai
Shah, explaining, “Before, the patient was treated AFTER the problem occurred, while now
it is about prevention. As our lifestyles have changed with an increase in obesity rates,
and now as orthopedic experts, we need to be able to assess a patient and predict these
potential problems in advance before they happen in the future.” Dr.Gopal Shukla, Specialist
Neurosurgery, further explains that the spine unit aims to offer a complete range of solutions
for spinal ailments starting from simple posture related backaches to instrumentation for
complex spinal deformities. The armamentarium includes minimal access procedures like
microdiscectomies and endoscopic disc excision.
AMulti-
Disciplinary
Approach…
Knee and Joint
Replacement
Surgeries
HEALTH METWITH THE ENTIRE TEAM AT THE RECENT LAUNCH OF
THUMBAY HOSPITAL’S NEWORTHOSPINE CENTER IN DUBAI TO
UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT HOWKNEE AND JOINT REPLACEMENT
SURGERIES HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN THE PAST 20 YEARS.
LIFELONG COMMITMENT
In fact, in orthopedics, they are caring
for humans from birth to death,
reveals Dr. Mohammed Ahmed
Refai Farag Sanad, Pediatric and
Deformity Correction Orthopedic
Specialist. “This journey in life may
include developmental problems or
congenital deformities, which require
to be checked; this is the pediatric
sector,” he says. “Next, there is
adolescence in which sports
injuries, trauma, movement, and
some rheumatoid disease may
begin now.”
ACHES AND PAINS
Nowadays, there is an increasingly
dramatic increase in muscular
pain and even newborn babies
can be affected; all of which
Rheumatology Consultant Dr.
Mohammed Hanafy Mohamed
Ahmed Salama points out is related
to rheumatology. For arthrodesis
in the knees and hip, most patients
have underlying rheumatic disease
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