Ever since Sita Sood accidentally fell off her bed she had been suffering from the limp.
The fall was so bad that she fractured neck of right femur (thigh bone which joins hip), which left her right lower limb shortened by 8 cm.
"The patient was given no surgical treatment at the young age, which proved disastrous. The injury caused severe dislocation in her right thigh bone and resulted in the shortening of her limb by 8 centimetres. This caused acute discomfort to the patient and left her limping the entire life," said Dr Rakesh Mahajan, Sr Consultant, Orthopaedics, Joint Reconstruction and Spine Surgery at BLK Super Speciality Hospital.
"This means that her hip was completely dislocated as the cup and ball socket was raised to 5 cm above resulting in shortening of the leg muscle. It was very difficult to bring femoral head (highest part of the thigh bone) into its socket as the acetabulam (which joins head of femur with pelvis) was shallow.
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"The most challenging part of the surgery was to provide a stable hip with equal limb length. For this the cup and ball was cut and fixed to enlarge the hip at the socket," said Ishwar Bohra, Orthopaedic consultant at BLK Hospital.
The patient was discharged within a few days after the 3-hour long surgery that took place recently and is now slowly and surely gaining strength.
"My painful limp is now a distant memory," said Sood.