HOSHIARPUR:
Naranjan Kaur (72), has undergone a successful rare reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) at a hospital in Hoshiarpur, recently.
She was suffering from severe pain for the last three years and was unable to lift her right arm. She was sleeping on one side. She was not able to comb hair and wear clothes at her own.
She came for treatment with severe debilitating condition, where degenerative arthritis right shoulder was diagnosed with rotator cuff arthropathy. Dr Avijit said the surgery was one of the biggest achievement.
“The surgery is one of the rarest surgeries performed in the UK, Canada and US where it costs nearly 4,000 Euros,” he added.
The surgery was performed by an implant. The patient was relieved from pain within 12-hr of surgery. For the orthopaedics patients such surgeries are a boon for the patients
