Says top players from North India treated at Fortis Mohali, 80 per cent patients players, Fortis north India’s leading sports injury treatment centre
Jahangeer Ganaie
Fortis Mohali is available to give wings to player career even if you suffer injury and you will be able to resume your practices just within six months of your surgery.
Addressing a press conference here, Dr Manit Arora, Senior Consultant at Fortis Mohali, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that in 2016 he joined the sports injury centre at Mohali and every month 5-6 players were being treated.
“In year 2023, we are conducting 100 surgeries per month through Arthroscopy and around 80 percent of my patients are players,” he said, adding that in one way it is very easy to treat them as goal of both doctor and player remains the same that is to take player back to game.
Dr Arora said: “We are now North India’s leading Sports injury treatment centre where dozens of international players and top players of different games have been treated and they have resumed playing within six months of treatment,” he said.
“Our focus is on research and education and we have 200 publications and we are running a fellowship programme as well as I have trained 26 surgeons all across India,” he added.
“Recently the Orthopaedics Team at Fortis Hospital Mohali has recently operated on a national-level sports person for a knee injury through the latest technique of ACL Reconstruction Surgery and Lateral Extra Articular Tenodesis,” he said.
The team of doctors led by me at Fortis Hospital Mohali, performed ACL Reconstruction Surgery on 25-year- old Sharukh Ahmad Dar, a Kashmir-based bowler playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, an Indian Premier League franchise.
“ACL Reconstruction Surgery includes repair or reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The ACL is a tissue that connects the thigh bone (Femur) to the shinbone (Tibia), at the knee. The injury is usually caused due to overstretching or tearing of the ACL,” he said.
“Patient Dar had been experiencing acute pain in his right knee along with swelling after an injury. This had restricted his performance and caused instability in the knee. He finally approached us at Fortis Mohali in May this year, and underwent an MRI which revealed an ACL injury. The doctors subsequently performed ACL Reconstruction Surgery on the Patient. The Patient also underwent Lateral Extra Articular Tenodesis, a normal procedure that reduces graft failure rates. Following good rehabilitation, the Patient was able to walk without support and subsequently discharged the following day. He did not face any complications post-surgery and was able to resume gym after two months,” he said.
Discussing the benefits of ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Dr Arora, said, “ACL Reconstruction Surgery includes repair or reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The procedure helps accelerate a player’s return to the respective game. Patient Sharukh was able to return to the gym in a span of two months and will be ready by next IPL,” he added.
He said that more and more youth in J&K are getting involved in sports activities and with sports there remains a scare of injury but we are here to tell them that injury isn’t an end to their career and but we are able to get them back to their journey of sports
