Rare surgery helps Yemeni walk after 18 years

Aurangabad | Friday | 16th November, 2018

Summary:

"We noticed that she not only had a problem in her left hip joint since childhood but her left knee joint had gradually deformed with age. "Apart from being a major weight bearing joint, the hip joint is also highly mobile and is very important for walking, sitting and squatting. Her condition was corrected through a two-phased surgery conducted over the last two months, said joint replacement surgeon Girish Gadekar , who was treating her. She had fallen from a height at her home in Yemen when she was 10 years old and had injured her hip joint. In the first stage, the left total hip replacement surgery was conducted..