Bones and Joints Institute:
Treatment for Bone Cancer, Bone Spurs, Bone Disease & Infection.
Common Symptoms of Bone and Joint Disease:
The majority of patient seeks treatment of specialists because of joint or back pain during body movement, or pain in their legs when they walk. In herniated disc cases, a patient may have pain in his or her back or thigh, as well as lack of strength or numbness in the legs.
Diagnosis:
The Bone and Joint Institute at Piyavate Hospital is a leading orthopaedic centre in South East Asia. The experienced, American Board-certified bone and joint specialists diagnose and treat the patients with state-of-the-art technology and equipment to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment. Short recovery time is a priority, as it is using minimally invasive techniques. Preliminary level treatments for patients with less severe symptoms include medication, physiotherapy, epidural steroid injections, or synthetic joint fluid injection at the knee or hip. Patients with severe disorders who require specialised surgery like spine surgery, arthroscopic surgery, and joint replacement, can be assured the Piyavate’s Bone and Joint Institute will provide the best facilities, methods, and staff.
Understanding causes and treatment:
Living a life that is always on the move means the health and well-being of one’s body structure is especially important. One’s bones and joints are the foundation of an active life, and any dysfunction caused by sports, exercise, accidents or aging will directly affect quality of life. Preventative maintenance is best, but sometimes more direct treatment of bone and joint disorder is necessary.
Bone and Joint problems can strike person of and lifestyle or age. For example, scoliosis or spinal degeneration caused by aging, and degenerative joint disease are a concern of anyone over 55 years. But other bone and joint problems such as herniated discs can be caused by obesity or physical exertion at any age. Bone and tendon damage, infections and tumours of the spine are also possible throughout a healthy and active life. Such complexities require and experienced specialist for accurate diagnosis and correct treatment.
Complete specialised services:
Spine surgery:
In cases of herniated disc or spinal stenosis, an expert surgeon can remove excess bone material and the disc that is compressing nerves and causing discomfort or numbness. In some cases, spinal fusion may be necessary. The use of navigation system, the computer aided surgeries, will improve accuracy and safety of the spine surgery. Under optimal conditions patient can recover full motor skills within 2 – 3 days.
Arthroscopic surgery:
Using the latest orthopaedic techniques, the clinic’s surgeons use a miniature scope (2 – 5 mm) to clearly see and evaluate the internal conditions of joints to assure precision performance in ligament reconstruction of knee joints and in meniscus and cartilage repair. Arthroscopic surgery can be performed on the knee, shoulder, hip, ankle, elbow or wrist. These techniques result is smaller entry wounds, less pain and faster recovery than conventional surgery techniques.
Joint replacement:
Severe degeneration of cartilage can drastically impede movement, directly reducing quality of life. Those afflicted often experience great pain, swelling of the joints and joint effusion. The clinic’s surgeons can thoroughly evaluate individual cases of cartilage degeneration to determine appropriate treatment for each patient.
Piyavate Hospital is fully equipped to diagnose and treat minor back pain, neck pain, and general joint disorders including bone and joint problems resulting from accidents and those occurring in children.
Bones and joints are the foundation of an active life. A bone fracture, bone pain, disease, infection or joint disorder caused by athletics, exercise, accidents or aging directly affects your quality of life. Prevention is best but sometimes a person needs help from an orthopaedic doctor or orthopaedic surgeon.
Bone cancer, bone spurs, bone disease or infection can strike persons of any lifestyle or age. If you are concerned about a possible bone cancer symptom, degenerative joint disease or any other bone or joint disorder, come see an American Board-certified orthopaedic physician for an orthopaedic physical assessment, perhaps including a bone scan or bone density test.