Movement restoration launched

CHENNAI: Global Hospitals and Health City has inaugurated GLOMORE, Global Initiative for Movement Restoration, for patients suffering from arthritis. This initiative will include Patient Support Groups formed by people who have successfully undergone orthopaedic treatments and surgeries, especially at Global Hospitals. This will help in educating new patients to understand their problems and to guide them about what kind of treatment they actually require. A panel of medical and allied professionals including orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, rehabilitation physician (physiatrist), physicians, nurses, physiotherapists will provide critical inputs to enable patients to lead a better post-operative life, besides helps the medical team to provide a consistently better and faster outcome.This was launched during a workshop that was conducted on the latest advances in Total Knee Replacement at the Global Hospitals and Health City on Monday. The workshop was helmed by Dr Frederick Buechel in association with Dr Michael J Pappas, former professor of mechanical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, developed the mobile bearing knee system over three decades ago. They joined surgeons here and discussed recent trends live surgeries by Dr Ajit Yadav and Dr AR Kesavan of the Department of Orthopedics and Joint Replacement at Global Hospitals. Along with this, there were paper presentations by eminent doctors in this field followed by interactive case discussions.Joint Replacement Surgery has helped relieve the pain and suffering of plenty of people affected by advanced arthritis. Advanced arthritis of the knee is a condition wherein the lining of the bones in the knee joint lose their ultra smooth nature and become riddled with pits and craters resulting in pain, deformity and stiffness. Total Knee Replacement substitutes the worn out linings with smooth artificial materials, that abolish pain and deformity and restore mobility. This procedure involves putting a ‘Cap’ like structure on the ends of the bone within the joint. These artificial linings had certain limitations and so they were used only in older people who had less chances of wearing out these implants. Younger patients could not be treated in this way because of the worry that revision surgery would be required.