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DR. ARUMUGAM. S got his basic qualification from ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY, Chidambaram, Tamil nadu. He got his surgical qualification from Europe and from Mumbai. He worked as a senior registar with Dr. H. J. SANGATHAN, FRCS,FRCS. who is a senior replacement surgeon, for a year. He also worked as a registar at Vijaya Hospital, chennai. He also did a corse on hip and knee arthoplasty in Australia under Dr. Roy Randle at Gold Coast, Australia.
Dr. Arumugam. S specialist interests include primary knee and hip
replacement surgeries. He is also interested in high flexion knee
replacements which gives the patients near normal range of movements.
He prefers doing both joint in one sitting there by cutting down
on stay and cost as well as lesssning rehabilitation time period
for the patient.
He routinely does knee replacements using minimally, invasive technique
(smaller incisions) for both high flexion as well as routine fixed
bearing knee replacements. He does hip replacement using conventional
bearing and mental on mental or ceramic on ceramic hard bearings
depending on the patients needs and requirements.
He is the one among the young replacement surgeons who has done
maximum no. of replacements in chennai. He is one among the first
surgeon to do pinnacle metal on metal hip replacement system on
both hips of a patient in one sitting.
He is also interested in doing revision hip and revision knee joint
replacement especially in those patient with periposthetic fractures,infections
and failed primary joint replacements. He manges all kinds of open
and closed fractures as well as polytrauma patients with relative
ease with his knowledge, talent and expereince.
He is a humanitarian who puts the patients first.
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