ACL surgery is a procedure that doctors use to replace a torn ligament in your knee.
With an ankle fracture, there is immediate swelling and pain around the ankle as well as impaired mobility.
More commonly, complex knee ligament conditions are caused by sports injuries in which two, three or all four of the ligaments in the knee tear at the same time. They may also be caused by a “high impact trauma,” such as a fall from a high place, a motor vehicle collision or an industrial accident.
An acetabular fracture is a break in the socket portion of the “ball-and-socket” hip joint. These hip socket fractures are not common — they occur much less frequently than fractures of the upper femur or femoral head (the “ball” portion of the joint).
The Ilizarov apparatus is a set of external fixators consisting of rings, rods and kirschner wires, all made of stainless steel. It differs from the conventional external fixators in that it encases the limb as a cylinder and it uses wires instead of pins to fix the bone to the rings.
Arthroscopy (ahr-THROS-kuh-pee) is a procedure for diagnosing and treating joint problems. A surgeon inserts a narrow tube attached to a fiber-optic video camera through a small incision — about the size of a buttonhole. The view inside your joint is transmitted to a high-definition video monitor.
Spinal surgery is performed to correct spinal pathologies that cause pain. Back surgery is used to relieve the pain and/or numbness associated with this pain, which often radiates to other areas of the back, arms and legs. Normally, back and spinal pain is caused by the compression of a nerve within it.
Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi replacement.
Knee replacement, also called knee arthroplasty or total knee replacement, is a surgical procedure to resurface a knee damaged by arthritis. Metal and plastic parts are used to cap the ends of the bones that form the knee joint, along with the kneecap.
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