Low Back Pain

Low backache is a universal phenomenon. Almost every adult would remember having suffered from severe attack of backache at least once in his her life time.

1. The incidence is increasing because of sedentary life styles, longevity of life span, obesity and necessity of travel by car and other jerky modes of transport.

2. We at KBMC practice evidence based medicine with an emphasis on patient education.

3. Our Multi-disciplinary staff works as a team with each patient to develop a personalilzed program to help them return to normal activity as quickly as possible and maintain a peak level of fitness.

4. Backache with Lumbar disc herniation is pain back going upto buttocks, back of thighs, going beyond thigh along calf and to ankle, causing spasms and stiffness, numbness and tingling which is caused only by swelling, stretching or compression of a nerve root.

Neck Pain

Neck pain is one of the commonest complaints for which patient approaches a doctor. Our center is a wonderful compromise between two opposing necessities - one is stability and the other flexibility. There are seven cervical vertebrate, joining the skull to the trunck in between which are disc( cushions) which serves as shock absorbers. It is the most mobile region of the spine and houses the spinal cord and the vertebral artery going to the brain.

1.Many psychological and social factors are found to operate in some patients of neck pain. While acute onset of pain may be associated with anxiety, chronic pain may be associated with depressions.
2.To minimise the occurrence of neck or back pain one should avoid the precipitating factors, and keep the spine strong and mobile by regular exercise and healthy body posture.

Degenerative Disorder

OSTEOARTHRITIS is a degenerative join disease, the cause is multifactoral which is still not understood, but commonly it is thought to be wear and tear of joints as one ages.

CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS is a degenerative condition of the cervical spine found almost universally in persons over 50 years of age. It occurs early in persons pursuing white collar jobs or those susceptible to neck problems because of keeping the neck constantly in one position while reading, writing, etc.

LUMBAR SPONDYLOSIS is a degenerative disorder of the lumbar spine characterized clinically by an insidious onset of pain and stiffness and radiologically by osteophyte formation, commonest cause is bad posture and chronic back strain, other causes being previous injury too the spine, previous disease of the spine, birth defects and old intervertebral disc prolapse.

Metabolic Bone Diseases
Osteoporosis is common metabolic bone diseases where there is diffuse reduction in the density due to a decrease in bone mass.

Osteomalacia means softening of bone due to deficiency of vitamin D.

Orthopedic Trauma

An injury to the Muscular Skeletal system can result in damage to bones, joints, musles and tendons. In addition the nervo vascular bundle of the limb may be damaged. We treat such patients by first making a diagnosis with intense clinical examination, x-ray and pop cast. Fiber class cast is the new advent which is gigid treatment modalities, hard and much lighter in weight.