Reconstruction & Deformity Correction

This gentleman fell from a tree breaking his forearm bones and having a large wound near the wrist joint. He was primarily treated in a free hospital. The wound healed and the fractures united. Unfortunately, there was no finger movements. At this point, the patient came to us with his friends. Staged surgery was carried out.

In the first stage the scarred skin of the forearm was removed and replaced with a healthy skin from the arm by a procedure called as lateral arm free micro-vascular flap. In the next stage, a procedure called tendon transfer was done. This restored his full finger movements. Now he is gainfully employed and own his house and several properties.

What a transformation! From jobless to gainful employment. Thanks to surgical technology, understanding of the problem and effective execution of the technique.

The patients we see have deformities from burns, from birth, spastic or from old, badly-healed injuries, many of them cosmetically disfiguring enough to carry real social stigma. Over the last 25+ years, free deformity-correction camps have run in rural Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

Read Dr. Jindal's account of the rural camps →