Orthopedic Surgeon
Health in Cairns

Advanced injury recovery, we bring several allied health and medical specialists together to facilitate and prevent injuries. Advanced injury recovery, we bring several allied health and medical specialists together to facilitate and prevent injuries.

However, life has a habit of throwing up challenges so here's an overview of the process: 1. DPs have numerous treatments at their disposal, including: Splints. Medication (including pain killers or antiinflamatories). 4.If your GP feels it should be useful, he or she may refer you to an orthopedic Surgeon. 5.You need to make an appointment with the GP's chosen surgeon, and depending on their availability, it make receive 1 day to 6 weeks to see them. If you have a current Workcover claim, you should also take your Claim number. Patients grasp their treatment options. Patients comprehend their involvement in their recovery and the steps to be taken. Patients comprehend how to protect themselves from coming injuries. We aim to offer world class orthopedic surgical treatment, by rigorous training and successive updating of our practices.

Splints were worn to help bone fractures to heal. They were made of bamboo, reeds, wood or bark, and were padded and wrapped with linen and have been found on mummies. Translation: Thou should st deposit him prostrate on his back, with something folded between his two shoulder blades thou should st spread out with his two shoulders, in order to stretch apart his upper arm until that fracture falls into its place. The use of splints and bandaging to help in the healing of bone fractures is recorded in ancient times, as it was realized that immobilization of an injury led to reduced pain, swelling and ultimately better healing. Hippocrates of Greece, known as the founder of new medicine, had a thorough accepting of fractures. He also advocated wooden splints plus exercise to prevent muscle atrophy or wasting during the immobilization. The ancient Greeks worn waxes and resins to create stiffened bandages. Arabian doctors worn lime derived from sea shells and albumen from egg whites to stiffen bandages. During the wars of the Middle Ages field surgeons would use clothes dipped in horse blood to apply premature splints to wounded limbs. When the clothes dried, they would stiffen and produce encourage to broken or damaged limbs. While the usual method for the healing of fractures was bed rest and restriction of activity many orthopedic injuries necessitated immobilization simply because the splinting materials were so heavy! The beginning orthopedic institute was established at Ore in Switzerland in 1780, treating the skeletal deformities of crippled children. At that time, patients suffering with musculoskeletal disease and deformities were maximum often prescribed rest and their limbs were immobilized with braces. Later, as the prevalence of tuberculosis declined, the waves of polio epidemics began. The need to rehabilitate soldiers injured in war, the discovery of the Bray and in later decades the development of penicillin and other antibiotics, as healthy as technologies for joint replacement and diagnostic tools all contributed significantly to the development of orthopedics as the specialty we know today in Australia. The British government had committed military encourage to France, so Britain entered the war. Most served in the Gallipoli campaign and then went to the Western Front. The four years of trench warfare in Europe took an extremely thick toll. Due to the extensive use of high speed projectiles, especially machine gun bullets and artillery shells, a high proportion of injuries were shrapnel and bullet wounds. All Australian soldiers who went to the fore line were issued with an iodine ampule, and dressings which they carried in a special pocket inside their tunic. Iodine tinctures a mixture of ethanol, water, iodine and potassium iodide was used as an antiseptic. During the war many men owed their lives to the doctors who were willing to receive speedy action to amputate gangrenous limbs. If the injury was originate infection was rife amputation was often the only hope of relief and survival. Additionally as World War I ensued, it was realized that premature treatment of orthopedic injuries was imperative.