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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With Singapore’s ageing population, degenerative joint diseases are becoming more commonplace, and can lead to significant immobility and disability in the elderly. A total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a form of surgery used in the treatment of severe knee joint … Continued
Read more +For most people, engineering and medicine are poles apart. You either have a passion for healing and making the sick better or an inclination towards designing systems and structures. For Dr Chin Pak Lin, Consultant within the Adult Reconstructive Service … Continued
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These days, she walks with a spring in her step. But it wasn’t always so – for two decades, Mdm Manisah Mohd Tahir lived with debilitating knee problems which kept her in constant pain and limited her movements. “I first … Continued
Read more +Dr Chin Pak Lin from TOC volunteered his orthopaedic expertise in Pakistan for medical aid after the Oct 8 earthquake in 2005. Reporter Ben Nadarajan, from The Straits Times, wrote about his stay with Dr Chin Pak Lin and the Singapore … Continued
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