Nagpur: A 51-year-old woman had lost ability to move her arm after injuring the shoulder during a scuffle with a thief.
A rare and complicated ‘Superior Capsula Reconstruction’ surgery performed by orthopaedic surgeon Dr Mukesh Laddha has brought back her arm movement.
In this procedure, the surgeon transplanted a muscle from the woman’s thigh into her shoulder.Dr Laddha claimed that it was the first such surgery performed in Central India.“The supraspinatus tendon in the shoulder, a very important muscle in the rotator cuff, was broken after the woman tackled a thief at her hometown in Uttar Pradesh.
Proper diagnosis on time could have helped correct it through telescopic surgery.
Due to delay in treatment, the arm movement stopped completely,” said Dr Ladhdha.The patient told the doctors that she couldn’t even move her hand up and down and there was tremendous pain too.
Doctors then decided to conduct Superior Capsular Reconstruction surgery.“Harvesting a similar type of muscle from thigh and implanting it in the shoulder is a very difficult and complicated task.
The procedure was developed by Dr Teruhisa Mihata in Japan who has refined the technique in such a way that many shoulder surgeons around the world can successfully and reliably perform this very complex operation,” said Dr Laddha.Rotator cuff strains or tears are caused by overuse or acute injury.
In this the tendons that connect muscles to bones can overstretch (strain) or tear, partially or completely.
Many patients unknown to this cause keep on suffering from the pain and shoulder-lock like situation for years.
The rotator cuff can also strain or tear after a fall, accident, or another sudden injury.
According to doctors, if diagnosed early, such tears can be repaired with the help of telescopic surgery.It will take near six months for the patient to recover fully.
Doctors said she will be able to move her hand in a normal way after physiotherapy for a few months.
Thigh muscle transplanted into shoulder to restore arm movement
