Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 11: Precision and quick rehabilitation has always been a challenge for knee replacement surgery for obese patients but not with robotic knee surgery technique said Dr Avtar Singh, Chief Orthopedics and Joint Replacement Surgeon Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar.
Baljinder Kaur, a resident of Kajiwal with weight of 115 kilograms was undergoing lot of pain, depression, grief and disability and could not walk due to excessive weight and pain.
Her condition was getting bad to worse. She was unable to work and was almost bed ridden until she met Dr Avtar Singh.
He advised robotic knee replacement and assured her that weight is not an issue with robotics.
Robotic knee replacement enjoys very high precision, less blood loss and no bone loss, said Dr Avtar Singh.
My mother started walking on the 3rd day after surgery and we were amazed to see the results of Robotic Knee surgery, said patient’s attendant. No other doctor could assure me these results and Dr Avtar Singh assured and delivered his commitment.
Robotic knee replacement is a revolution in replacing knees and Amandeep Group Hospital is committed to provide state of the art, technologies to serve the people of region, says Dr Avtar Singh, who is the first Punjabi and first Sikh surgeon in the world to start robotic knee replacement.