Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics, also spelled orthopaedics, is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma, spine diseases, sports injuries, degenerative diseases, infections, tumors, and congenital disorders.
Common problems treated by orthopedic doctors are low back pain, fractures, knee pain, joint pains,neck pain, arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, foot pain, hip pain, kyphosis, scoliosis, shoulder pain, soft tissue injuries, hand and wrist pain, pagets disease, osteoporosis, bone tumors.
The common procedures performed by orthopedic surgeons are a
- Knee arthroscopy and meniscectomy
- Shoulder arthroscopy and decompression
- Carpal tunnel release
- Knee arthroscopy and chondroplasty
- Removal of support implant
- Knee arthroscopy and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
- Knee replacement
- Repair of femoral neck fracture
- Repair of trochanteric fracture
- Debridement of skin/muscle/bone/fracture
- Knee arthroscopy repair of both menisci
- Hip replacement
- Shoulder arthroscopy/distal clavicle excision
- Repair of rotator cuff tendon
- Repair fracture of radius (bone)/ulna
- Laminectomy
- Repair of ankle fracture (bimalleolar type)
- Shoulder arthroscopy and debridement
- Lumbar spinal fusion
- Repair fractureof the distal part of radius
- Low back intervertebral discsurgery
- Incise finger tendon sheath
- Repair of ankle fracture(fibula)
- Repair of femoral shaft fracture
- Repair of trochanteric fracture