Sport is beauty, strength and health, without it it is difficult to imagine the lifestyle of a modern person. But at the same time, sport is a risk of injury, which can permanently limit the usual rhythm of your everyday life, or cause serious harm to your health.
Today, the Rudenko Medical Center offers a wide range of methods for treating sports injuries, in particular, the center provides:
- open surgery,
- minimal invasive arthroscopic techniques
- and injection therapy
It is important not to delay, but to contact a trauma surgeon at the Rudenko Medical Center in a timely manner so as not to lose precious time for the fastest possible return to normal life without pain.
Surgical treatment of sports injuries
The Rudenko Medical Center provides a full cycle of surgical treatment of sports injuries. We are close to each patient from the initial consultation for injuries of any complexity to the development of a personal rehabilitation plan. Our center can perform open and minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery.
Open surgery involves surgical interventions for displaced bone fractures using metal structures. Such surgery is complex in terms of the extent of damage and requires not only the skill of the surgeon, but also the trust and discipline of the patient in the postoperative period.
Low-traumatic osteometallosynthesis techniques
The Rudenko Medical Center is moving towards advanced technological solutions in the field of orthopedics, therefore it is increasingly practicing the use of such treatment methods, namely:
- Closed intramedullary osteosynthesis
Performed through small incisions, instead of wide accesses to the intervention site, through which special metal rods are mounted inside the bone and fixed with screws.
- Minimally invasive fixation of fractures with a plate and screws
Periosteal synthesis is mounted similarly to intramedullary through small incisions on the skin.
- Percutaneous osteometallosynthesis with Ilizarov wires
Used when it is necessary to stabilize small fragments of bone fractures.
The technique of minimally invasive techniques allows to reduce the intraoperative volume of damaged tissues and blood loss, which in turn will significantly affect the duration and significantly facilitate the rehabilitation period. The advantages of such surgical treatment are:
- Preservation of maximum blood supply to the bone
- Minimization of the risk of infectious processes
- Rapid restoration of functional activity of the limb
Minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery
This method is used for a wide range of sports injuries and is increasingly becoming the method of choice today, instead of open interventions.
Injuries that can be treated with arthroscopy:
- Ligament ruptures
The cruciate ligaments of the knee, the ligamentous apparatus of the shoulder and ankle joints are most often injured.
To restore the integrity of the ligamentous complex, their plasticity is used using artificial grafts, donor, or from the body's own tissues.
- Meniscal damage
The menisci are a kind of shock-absorbing pads of the articular surfaces in the knee joint. Their injury is quite common not only in the world of sports, but also in the average patient. Such structures are damaged with partial or complete rupture. With the help of arthroscopy, fragments of the damaged meniscus can be sewn together or completely removed from the joint cavity, if tissue plasticity is impossible.
- Dislocations
If a patient develops their usual recurrent dislocations as a result of injuries to the limbs, we will be talking about the failure of the joint capsule and instability in the joint. Arthroscopy is definitely a quick and effective solution to this clinical problem. Joint capsule reconstruction using this minimally invasive technique will allow the patient to forget about the troubles with a suddenly "popped" shoulder and live a full and healthy life.
Injection treatment of sports injuries
Today, therapy by injecting drugs into the joint cavity or paraarticular soft tissues is a young and promising field. It is in sports injuries, where decisions must be made quickly with the least expenditure of resources and the greatest possible result, that injection therapy has become a real treasure.
- reduction of pain and inflammation in minutes
- delivery of the drug directly to the site of injury
- stimulation of the restoration of the patient's own tissues
- no physical restrictions after the procedure
- no surgical interventions, blood loss, need for hospitalization
All these are advantages of injection methods for treating sports injuries that are difficult to overestimate.
Among the drugs used in injection therapy, the most widely used are:
- Hyaluronic acid
It is used not only in aesthetic medicine, but is also a natural analogue of joint fluid. It has a shock-absorbing effect, prevents faster degeneration of joint surfaces and improves mobility in the joint.
- PRP therapy (plasma therapy)
The patient's centrifuged blood plasma, saturated with platelets, is injected into the required area, locally and intensively stimulating tissue regeneration, exerting a powerful anti-inflammatory effect and is ideally biocompatible with the patient's body.
- Corticosteroids
They are used when it is necessary to deliver powerful anti-inflammatory drugs directly into the joint cavity. The drug's action occurs as quickly as possible and has a long-lasting cumulative effect.
It is worth remembering that intraarticular injections of any medications should be performed by a specialist with a medical education and under the control of an ultrasound sensor to avoid traumatizing adjacent tissues.
Rudenko Medical Center is a quick and effective solution under any conditions. Our professional traumatology team is ready to assist every patient regardless of the complexity of the clinical situation. We will find answers to all your questions and, side by side with you, we will walk the path to full recovery and return you the joy of moving freely and allow you to forget about the injury forever.