Laparoscopic surgery

Around 92% of all basketball players will have an ankle sprain at least one time during their playing career. Most basketball injuries are sprains, strains or contusions (muscle damage by impact) meaning the most common injured area for basketball players are either their ankle or knee. Here are the typical injuries found in basketball and what to do if they occur. Sprained Ankle One of the most frequent injuries is when a player rolls their ankle - where the sole of the foot faces inwards.…

Suture-button fixation for tibiofibular syndesmosis injuries is a relatively new surgical technique thought to provide semirigid dynamic stabilization. However, adequate information is still not available and there are controversies as to whether it provides enough fixation for syndesmosis injuries. Optimally directed suture-button fixation brings physiologic dynamic stabilization of the ankle syndesmosis. Controlled laboratory study. Stabilization of the ankle syndesmosis fixed by a…

I would have to undergo intensive knee reconstruction surgery and months of physical therapy. Being a varsity basketball player since I was a freshman, this was absolutely devastating. When you tear your ACL you hear a lot about how hard the rehab will be and how long it takes to come back to basketball, but what you do not hear about is the two months immediately after surgery when you cannot even walk. I never imagined that this surgery would do more for me then repair my knee. The process…

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Orthopedic surgeons treat people of all ages including newborns, children, athletes and the elderly with conditions including joint and bone injuries. Musculoskeletal problems consist of more than 14 percent of medical costs. They perform many different surgeries which includes soft tissue repair, joint replacement and fusion. Orthopedic surgeons can specialize in foot and ankle, hand, joint replacement, rehabilitation, spine, trauma and fractures, sports medicine, or shoulder and elbows.…

have an opportunity to assist the surgeon by holding retractors and manipulating tissue,” she says, noting that surgical techs aren’t allowed to actually perform any portion of the surgery. The surgical techs are required to know the names of hundreds of medical instruments used throughout surgeries. During surgeries a surgical tech is often called certain names that relate to their duties during the procedure. The most common are a Scrub person and a Circulator. The scrub person’s…

During this past year Rigoberto was cooperative with consult appointments. He did not required pre-sedation. He attended a total of 9 consults; three consults with Neurology for Seizure disorder who the previous year initiated him on Zonegran and throughout this year increased it to his actual dose which is of 200 mg three times a day; in addition he is on Lamictal and Tegretol as part of his antiepileptic treatment. He consulted Oncology for Macrocytosis anemia and Neutropenia which as per Dr.…

endodontics Resilon as a filling material Introduction Optimal root canal filling material must achieve the following characteristic :- -Prevent leakage -dimensionally stable . -noncarcinogenic -biocompatible . -radiopaque . This essay seek to illustrate the comparison between resilon and other filling material from ; the point of long-term , fracture resistance , Microleakage and Antimicrobial Activity . A-long term :- at Texas A&M university college of dentistry one hundred…

Neuroimaging is a technique that produce images of brain without any direct contact with the inside of the body such as internal surgery, incision of the skin. Neuroimaging technology become a powerful tool for both research and medical diagnosis. Because these technologies enable noninvasive visualization of the structure and functional segments of the brain. The field of neuroimaging has advanced rapidly day by day due to the development in technology and computational methods. The…

that will require life long care and follow up surgeries” and then returning back to the operating room to complete the surgery, was a terrible example of informing the family. Coming out of a surgery in white coats into a surgical waiting room added even more tension to this conversation. This was not the ideal setting as there were other families around. The participants in this conversation were my parents and the surgeons performing this surgery, but there were other unwanted participants…