Lifestyle in Orthopaedics Orthopaedics is not all about using knives to cut through skin (and bone). Most orthopaedic patients can get better by changing their exercise and diet habits. Dr Yvonne Chuon, Lifestyle Medicine Physician at Quill Orthopaedic Specialist Centre spends most of her time helping her patients make small lifestyle changes that create huge […]
Author: Putra Vatakal
Knee Injections: What to Expect
Getting a knee injection is not very different from getting any other injection (e.g. a vaccination) A dog’s bark being worse than his bite, and all that- you’ll probably feel worse in your surgeon’s waiting room than while the needle is actually in your knee. The special thing about a knee injection is that everything […]
Stem Cells
Immature. Hardly a word you would like to be called. Far from something to get excited about. But could immature cells… Stem cells… be the key that unlocks the door that lets incurable conditions like osteoarthritis out of our clinics (and lives)? Perhaps I’m being a little dramatic. Though very likely not as dramatic as […]
PRP and Growth Factors
Roughly 10% of Malaysian adults have regular knee pain, and more than half of these are knee osteoarthritis (OA) We have discussed how knee OA is not just a lack of joint fluid, but also drying out & cracking of cartilage, and calcification (hardening) of the meniscus – which all cause pain. Hyaluronic Acid (HA)/viscosupplement […]
Knee Injections: Lubricants and Gels
Viscosupplementation is… a very long word you really don’t need to remember. It involves injecting a viscous (thick, gel-like) fluid into your joint to help it move efficiently with less pain. Which sounds simple enough – and many assume it’s a quick way to solve their knee problems – which is only partly true. True, […]
Knee Injections: An Introduction
A great many of my patients walk (when possible) into my clinic with knee problems. I’m not surprised, because wherever we go -whether we sail or fly, drive or walk – our knees carry us along on our way. Not all knee issues are the same- some people have torn a ligament, and feel wobbly […]
Lower Back Pain
When I was a young boy, all I did was lie around watching TV. “No backbone” was a word my mum frequently used describing my invertebrate activities. The back is kind of important, though most of us hardly ever see our own backs – so important in fact, that nearly all living creatures are divided […]
The S shaped Spine
Should Adolescents with Scoliosis Get Surgery? “Ah Girl, can stand straight or not? Your shoulders are so senget. You always wear your baju so tight- tight one lah, that’s why! “ said Mum. Aiya, Mummy. Can you please stop picking on me?” said the young teen. Mum wasn’t really picking on her Her clothes weren’t all that […]
Rebuilding the Unstable Knee
Moving into a new phase of Malaysia’s war on COVID, one regularly forwarded phone message lists the DOs and DONTs of what is increasingly known as MCO 2.0. One item of interest to the more athletically inclined Malaysian is “What sports (or exercise) can I still do?” – which usually centres around jogging, badminton and […]
Thoughts on Replacing Knees
Monday and Tuesday mornings see me walking into the Orthopaedic clinic in Sungai Buloh to find a swirling sea of patients. Some sit in their wheelchairs fiddling with their smartphones; a bored little boy with his arm in a sling wiggles his fingers under his plaster cast to scratch. An older lady inches toward the […]
