Orthopaedics at R.R. Healthcare covers fractures and dislocations, joint and back pain, neck and shoulder problems, sports and workplace injuries, arthritis, and the elective knee and hip replacement work run off the hospital’s modular operation theatres.
Most of this clinic is not surgery
A fall in the bathroom with a wrist that will not move. A knee that has stiffened and aches over one winter. A labourer’s back that went after lifting and has not come. Most orthopaedic problems are settled by diagnosis, medicines, rest and a change in what the joint is asked to do — and surgery is discussed only when those stop working or when a fracture genuinely needs fixing. Where an operation is advised, the surgeon explains what is being done, what recovery looks like in weeks, and what it costs before you agree to it.
Conditions treated
- Bone and joint disease
- Fractures
Procedures performed
- Joint replacement
- Fracture fixation
Timings Session days are not on this site yet — call the appointment desk before travelling.
Your visit, step by step
- Come with the injured part accessible — loose clothes, no jewellery on that limb — and with any earlier X-ray, not just the report.
- Examination and, where indicated, a digital X-ray taken on this campus. Bone imaging does not need a second day.
- Treatment started there and then: a splint or cast, a bandage, an injection into the joint, or the medicines and the movement advice that goes with them.
- For a fracture or a replacement needing surgery: admission, the operation theatre, the ward, then a discharge sheet with the weight-bearing advice, the wound-care instructions and the review date written down.
What to bring to an orthopaedic visit
- Earlier X-rays as images, not only the typed report — a CD, a film, or a phone transfer of the films from the centre that took them. The surgeon needs to look, not to read somebody else’s description.
- Loose clothing that lets the injured or painful part be uncovered, and no jewellery or watches on that limb. A swollen wrist cannot be examined through a bangle.
- How the injury happened, in one sentence, with the date: fell in the bathroom, lifted a load at work, road accident. Old injuries count, because an ache that started after a fall two winters ago is a different problem from one that came on slowly.
- The medicine list, especially any blood thinner such as aspirin — it changes what can be done the same day, from a cast to an operation.
Questions the desk gets asked
Often yes — splinting, casting, bandaging and a joint injection are started in the clinic itself. What cannot be done on the day is anything that needs an operation theatre, and that is booked through the admission desk with a date, not attempted in a consultation room.
The surgeon says so in the room, in terms of what will change and what will not. Most orthopaedic problems here are treated without an operation first; when surgery is advised it is because the examination and the imaging say the non-surgical road has already been tried or is not available for that injury. Ask what happens if you wait six months — an honest answer to that question is what a consultation is for.
A discharge sheet with the review date, the wound-care instructions and — this is the part people get wrong at home — how much weight the limb is allowed to carry. Ask for it to be explained before you leave, and keep it; the next doctor will want to know what the first one told you.
Where this clinic sits in the hospital
A fresh fracture, a dislocation or any injury with an open wound comes through casualty, which is open all night, and imaging is in this building. Operations run off the hospital’s modular operation theatres, with critical care behind them for the polytrauma case that needs watching rather than a ward. For the older patient whose fall is really about weakness, dizziness or medication, internal medicine is often the first appointment, not the second.
A limb that looks deformed or is moving where it should not, a suspected fracture in an older person after any fall, a back injury with numbness around the groin or loss of bladder or bowel control, a wound over a joint with fever, or a crush injury at work: casualty now, and keep the limb still on the way.
Joint replacement is performed here; the implant being used and the all-inclusive figure for that surgery are quoted by the admission desk, because the hospital has not published a rate on this site. Ask for it in writing before scheduling.