Orthopedic Treatment

India, a developing country of Asia, can offer world class healthcare treatment to the patients of the developed countries which costs a tenth and sometimes even a sixteenth of the costs in the western developed countries. Orthopedic surgery in India is fairly developed and the success rate of the treatments done here is also very high.

There is no dearth of orthopedic techniques in India. Treatments such as knee and hip replacement, limb lengthening, Illizarov technique and Birmingham hip resurfacing technique are available in India. Orthopedic surgery is so developed in India that the Birmingham hip resurfacing technique which is not available even in the US, is available in India.

Latest treatments and techniques are available in a number of hospitals in India. The department of orthopedic surgery in India has a well trained pool of orthopedic surgeons who have been making use of the techniques such as cartilage and bone transplantation, minimal invasive surgery, limb sparing surgery and spine surgery. Orthopedic surgery in India is also well developed in the fields of skeleton problems, arthritis, sports injuries, bone tumors and problems of complex broken bones, scoliosis. Spinal surgeries ranging from stabilization and fusion to fixation are treated most effectively by orthopedic surgeons in India.

A well developed orthopedic surgery in India is a part of the medical tourism being promoted by the government of India. Greece, Jordan, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and India are some of the countries of the world where medical tourism is being promoted actively by their governments. Although India has recently entered the arena of medical tourism, the success of the treatments and the faith shown by the patients from all over the world is very encouraging not only for the orthopedic surgery in India, but also for other fields of medical tourism.

Oncology units consisting of surgical oncology, crucial Bone Marrow Transplantation and medical and radiation therapy are available in majority of hospitals in India. Bone marrow transplantation unit with the help of high pressure hipa filters is a technique which has helped in achieving high rate of success in different types of transplantations in orthopedic surgery in India.

A considerable feat of performing cord blood transplant and mismatched allogeneic stem cell transplant achieved successfully has been a significant feature in the field of orthopedic surgery in India. This feat has been recognized by orthopedic surgeons all over the world because of the fact that the cost of the treatment is one tenth of cost in the western developed countries.

One of the special features of orthopedic surgery in India is the fact that special surgeons for individual organs are available everywhere. Facilities such as tele-therapy and Ilizarov techniques are abundantly practiced by orthopedic surgeons in India. Ilizarov is technique which is practiced while treating disfiguration of limbs, deformities and shortening of the limbs.

Joint replacement surgeries such as shoulder, hip and knee replacement surgeries are performed using some of the most advanced techniques of keyhole (endosopic surgery) and anthroscopy. All these advanced orthopedic surgery techniques are available in a number of hospitals in India. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Apollo Hospital and Holy Family Hospital in Delhi, Hinduja and Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai, Madras Institute of Orthoepaedics and Trauma Sciences in Chennai are some of the major orthopedic hospitals which provide a cutting edge to the orthopedic surgery in India.