A REGIONAL FIRST AS SURGEONS REPAIR RUGBY PLAYER''S SHOULDER скачать в хорошем качестве

A REGIONAL FIRST AS SURGEONS REPAIR RUGBY PLAYER''S SHOULDER

Cayman Islands (August 30, 2018) – After years of repeated injury, Cayman Islands national rugby player Edward Westin’s shoulder had dislocated over 100 times. Even after corrective surgery, the joint was so damaged that it would dislocate in his sleep. In the first surgery of its kind in the Americas, the Health City Cayman Islands orthopedic surgical team led by Dr. Alwin Almeida, Chief Orthopedic Surgeon and Joint Replacement Specialist, repaired Westin’s shoulder with a minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery utilising an advanced technique not yet available in the United States or Canada. The surgery is called an arthroscopic Latarjet, and is the minimally invasive adaptation of a commonly used surgical procedure in orthopedics and sports medicine. Dr. Almeida explained: “They do Latarjets in the U.S., but arthroscopic Latarjet is less common. The technique that we used was a special technique, which was [first] described by Dr. Pascal Boileau. This is probably the first time it has been done in the region.” The Latarjet operation, also known as the Latarjet-Bristow procedure, is a surgical procedure used to treat recurrent shoulder dislocations, typically caused by bone loss or a fracture of the glenoid. The procedure was first described by French surgeon Dr. Michel Latarjet in 1954.