In an interview with Lianhe Wanbao on cycling, Dr Tan shared about its health benefits, its rehabilitation of knee pain/injury as well as safety aspects to look out for to prevent any sports injury from cycling. According to Dr Tan, cycling … Continued
Read more +Dr Chin Pak Lin shared with Joan Chew, from The Straits Times, on the common injuries tennis players suffer from and how they would occur during a game of tennis. Tennis may be a good sport with many health benefits but, like … Continued
Read more +A difficult but possible endeavour Cartilage damage is a common problem in many joints especially the knee. It is not an easy problem to treat, but there are many treatment modalities available to repair or regenerate damaged cartilage. Cartilage … Continued
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Dr Tan is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in the shoulder, knee and elbow at The Orthopaedic Centre (Novena) at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre. Dr Tan shared his views on minmally invasive procedures like keyhole surgery in Mind Your Body (The … Continued
Read more +Dr David Su answers a Straits Times reader’s query on the Achilles tendon pain he is having, which may be a tendonitis problem or Haglund syndrome. The reader’s Achilles tendon pains whenever he start walking after he just got up from … Continued
Read more +In an interview with Lianhe Wanbao, Dr David Su talks about the causes and treatment of splay foot, such as tendon transfer surgery. Splay foot is commonly developed from flat floot. People with splayed foot may have difficulty walking well … Continued
Read more +Orthopaedic surgeon Tan Chyn Hong tells Joan Chew how he helps athletes recover in time for competitions I specialise in treating shoulder and elbow conditions because… I was inspired by my mentor and teacher, Professor V Prem Kumar, who is the head of the division … Continued
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Even the best surgeons sometimes miss the mark when fitting knee implants, but a new robot will minimise such human errors. Patients at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), which handles the most knee replacement operations here, can look forward to … Continued
Read more +Some surgeons are questioning the viability of implant alignment for mini total knee arthroplasty involving side cuts. While a recent randomized controlled trial found similar results with standard and mini mid-vastus techniques, researchers discovered inferior radiographic outcomes with mini side-cutting … Continued
Read more +Celia Tan, a pioneering educator in Singapore, is on a ground-breaking mission to raise the profile of physiotherapy in Cambodia. She is raising the country’s future trainers to be trailblazers like her. Will they put her ideas into practice?
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