If you suffer from osteoarthritis in your knees, shoulders, hips or ankles and these joints have worn down to the point where they are causing you pain, then you might want to consider Joint Replacement Surgery. Joint replacement surgeries of all types have excellent success rates, and patients can expect nearly full recovery of the movement of the joint. You might be eligible for Joint Replacement Surgery if you fit the following criteria.
# You have pain associated with osteoarthritis in your hip, ankle, knee or shoulder.
# You have difficulty moving any of these joints in a specific way
# You have sustained an injury to one of these joints, and it is no longer functioning or causing you extreme pain.
While replacement surgeries are fairly common, and have an excellent success rate, patients should be reminded that it is major surgery. As such, there can be complications which can arise either from the surgery or from post-operative care. These can include infection, rejection of the graft, dislocation of the joint, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and nerve damage. In addition to these risks, there are some risks common to all surgeries. These can include heart attacks, strokes, and embolisms. You should not have Joint Replacement Surgery if:
# You are unhealthy, in that you have recently recovered from a major illness or surgery
# You have a serious heart condition.
# You have any kind of infection of any kind.
The pain and immovability of the joints is at all preferable to the risks of major surgery.
Once you have decided to go through with your Joint Replacement Surgery, you could have a full or partial joint replacement, depending on the condition of the joint and the integrity of the remaining bone. You could have a titanium, ceramic or compound joint, but this would depend on the surgeon performing the procedure. After your operation you can expect a few days of hospitalization followed by a few weeks of keeping weight off the joint. After this several months of strength and endurance training could be necessary.
While Joint Replacement Surgery is not expensive compared to many major surgeries, it can still be extremely costly if you do not have health insurance. However, if you were to have your Joint Replacement Surgery in India it would cost you around 30% less than it would in the United States. Not only that, but India has some of the finest medical institutions in the world which specialize in treating foreign, English-speaking patients.
With the money you save on your surgery, you could spend your recovery time touring India, which would be extremely inexpensive considering the exchange rate. The Paras Hospitals Group boasts a world-renowned muscular-skeletal unit, and specializes in catering to the special brand of patients who come from all over the world to have Joint Replacement Surgery in India: medical tourists. Not only is this an inexpensive option, but also an option to have an exotic holiday.
All such information regarding the surgery estimate, medical packages, Surgeon consultation and any other queries can be obtained from Hospitals International Patient Division, by loging on to
www.parashospitals.com
Prashant Kumar
PR International
www.parashospitals.com
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