The services provided by consultants of The Joint Clinic are at par with the highest standard of Orthopaedic care. All the consultants have been trained by world renowned surgeons from United Kingdom and Australia and have excellent surgical experience
Your elbow can be damaged by problems ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to traumatic fractures. In some cases, the damage can be surgically repaired. But if the damage is extensive, we might recommend elbow replacement surgery. Elbow replacement surgery is a complicated procedure partly because the elbow has several moving parts that balance each other with great precision to control the movements of your forearm. In elbow replacement surgery, the damaged joint is removed and an artificial (prosthetic) joint is inserted into your arm bones. The joint is a metallic implant that is cemented into your humerus and ulna bones with a plastic bearing. Elbow replacement is usually reserved for low demand patients or patients with advanced stages of rheumatoid arthritis
If your elbow is stiff and does not have a full range of movements, then your surgeon can do an operation to release the scar tissue around the elbow joint and increase the movements. This can be done either through a key hole or arthroscopic surgery (when the scar tissue is inside your joint) or through open surgery (when the scar tissue is outside your joint). This operation is called elbow arthrolysis
Elbow instability is looseness in the elbow joint that causes the joint to pop or slide out of place during certain arm movements. It occurs as a result of an injury — typically, an elbow dislocation. This type of injury can damage the ligaments that surround the elbow joint. When the elbow is loose and repeatedly feels as if it might slip out of place, it may require surgical Ligament reconstruction. Most ligament tears cannot be stitched back together, the ligament must be reconstructed. During the procedure, we replace the torn ligament with a tissue graft. This graft acts as a new ligament. In most cases, the ligament can be reconstructed using one of the patient’s own tendons