Orthopaedic surgery

Orthopaedic surgeries are the ones dealing with human musculoskeletal system. Usually the objects of surgery are knees, shoulders, hips.

The surgery can be minimally invasive, like arthroscopy, while in other cases full replacement of knee or hip joints (arthroplasty) may be needed.

The main reason for necessity of joint replacement is osteoarthritis. This is a slow progressive disease often described as a condition when the joint cartilage wears out. Cartilage is a surface of joint which allows pain free movements and when the cartilage wears out, bone ends rub to each other causing pain.

Why does the joint surface wears out? There might be number of reasons, however to define the main one is usually impossible. Usually it comes with the age and side effects like anatomic changes, traumas, rheumatic diseases, overweight, lack of physical activities, unhealthy life style and so on that only help the disease to progress faster. Read more