By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 21st
May:- There is a growing medical concern
especially in the north India where people are complaining of shoulder related
ailments, said Dr Manit Arora,
Consultant, Shoulder & Knee Surgery at Fortis Hospital, Mohali. As
much as 500% increase [TKD1] was seen in the last one year,
claimed Dr Arora while interacting with the media persons today here.
Dr
Manit Arora further said that when we started the shoulder unit at Fortis
Mohali, there were hardly one to two cases per month being done, over the last
one year we are now doing about 30 cases a month of shoulders only, which
includes key hole shoulder surgery and shoulder replacements.
There are various causes of
shoulder pain including rotator cuff tears and arthritis. However, most
shoulders are often diagnosed and treated as frozen shoulder due to multiple
factors. The doctor
explained frozen shoulders constitute less than one percent of all shoulder
pain. Examples galore when a patient would be treated for frozen shoulder when
they have an internal shoulder injury leading to secondary freezing.
Dr
Manit Arora said that lack of awareness as well as good diagnostic support results
in such poor prognosis as many patients are wrongly diagnosed frozen shoulders
treated with physiotherapy and injections for months. Severe rotator cuff tears
or arthritis may be the causes in such cases. If detected early, then we can prevent
them developing arthritis. This will prevent the need for shoulder replacements.
On shoulder
arthritis, Dr Manit Arora said
that we usually begin with a course of
medications and physiotherapy for the mild-moderate arthritis. Those with severe
arthritis suffer from regular pain. For these patients,’ the shoulder
replacement has helped changed their lives for better. In addition, depending
on the case, we do a reverse shoulder replacement which has excellent results
and leads to increased movement and pain free life.
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