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Video: Arthroscopy Of The Joints - Features Of The Method, Indications, Advantages
2024 Author: Rachel Wainwright | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 07:39
Arthroscopy of the joints
Remember the stories about famous Filipino healers? These are the healers who operate without making cuts, but simply immersing their hands in the body, identifying the diseased organ with them, and then doing the necessary manipulations, and voila! The patient is not only alive and well, but also has no marks on the skin from the intervention, and can immediately walk. It is not known whether this is a story or true, but the fact that such a technique exists in traditional medicine is a fact. It is called endoscopy. Endo means inward, -scopy means research. Depending on what is being investigated inside, the first part of the word changes. So, the study of joints by endoscopy is called arthroscopy of the joints.
What is joint arthroscopy? This is a method that can be used both for diagnosis and for elimination of pathology. The essence of joint arthroscopy is as follows. A device called an arthroscope is taken. It is a device in the form of a long, thick needle, with a cold light source and a mini-camera at the end. The device is operated by the surgeon and connected to a monitor. During the procedure of arthroscopy of the joint, the device is inserted through the puncture directly into the joint, and the camera transmits the image to the monitor.
Isn't it a miracle? You can see all the tissues of the joint, and even in an enlarged form. There is no blood when the arthroscope is inserted, so the visibility is excellent. This is how diagnostic arthroscopy of the joints is performed. Arthroscopy of the joints as a treatment is the same plus another puncture through which a microsurgical instrument is inserted. All necessary manipulations are performed under the control of vision, then the arthroscope is simply removed. Two tiny wounds remain at the puncture site.
This technique has revolutionized the treatment of joints. The fact is that opening a joint in a normal operation is so traumatic for it that it was used as a last resort, when it would definitely not be worse. Arthroscopy of the joints made the intervention as delicate as possible. There are many advantages: bloodlessness, excellent access to all structures, the ability to carry out any interventions, a minimum recovery period, since there is no surgical injury. After arthroscopy of the joints, the patient can load the joint within a couple of hours after the operation, and not limp on crutches for weeks. The method is so successful that now in the leading clinics of the world, arthroscopy of the joints is accepted as the gold standard in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of joint diseases.
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