Surgery enables Maryam to stand on her feet.
Oman Tribune, Sep 4, 2006
Muscat: Today Maryam Khamis Mubarak Ali Naabi can walk unaided as much as she feels like. She can also run and climb up stairs, jump and dance if she wants to.
Exactly a week ago, when she was admitted to the ATLAS Star Medical Centre in Bausher, she had been in that condition for two years, unable to walk on her own even from her bed to the bathroom due to acute osteoarthritis.
All this seemed like an impossible dream for Maryam has become possible thanks to a revolutionary knee replacement surgery that she successfully underwent, under the expert hands of the dedicated team of orthopedic surgeons at ATLAS.
According to Dr. A. Venkateshwaran, due to the patient's osteoarthritis, the cushioning material between the thigh bone, femur, and the bone of the lower limb, the tibia-fibula, that meet at the knee joint, had completely worn out making any kind of movement virtually impossible. The knee replacement surgery consists of smoothening the surface areas of the two bones at the point of contact and clothing the head of the two surface areas so that there is absolutely no friction which makes for a smooth and pain-free-gliding movement.
Following the success of this surgery the team of orthopedic doctors are upbeat. They stress that this kind of sophisticated surgery is now available right here in Oman and in comparison to other places, costs 50 per cent less. Besides the expertise and skill of the extremely competent doctors, there is the best infrastructural backup to provide 24-hour care for quick recovery.
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