Hosmat

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HOSMAT, the Hospital for Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Arthritis & Trauma, is a 350-bed speciality hospital in central Bangalore, India. It also includes Hosmat Joint Replacement Center and Hosmat Neurosciences. It is currently undergoing expansion to 500 beds, which would make it the largest speciality hospital of its kind in Asia.

Initially it known as the 'accident hospital', later was in the news as a centre for knee transplantation procedures. Now in its second decade, it was expanded in 2005 after the acquisition of old ITI corporate office next door. Now it is India's largest orthopedic and neuro center.

Procedures carried out at the hospital include:

• Medical and surgical treatment of arthritis
• Joint replacements of the knee, hip, shoulder and elbow
• Fibreoptic arthroscopy of various joints
• Treatment of fractures, non-union and malunion of fractures, ligament injuries, reconstructive surgeries, specialized Ilizarov surgery (limb lengthening procedure)
• Correction of deformities
• Spinal surgeries (disc problems, spondylitis, pinched nerves, spine fractures, deformities, scholiosis and tumours)
• Paediatric Orthopaedics
• Industrial injuries

In addition, the Neurosurgery and Neurology Department provides microsurgery, skull base, spine, trauma work, nerve injuries, surgery for brain and spinal cord tumours, slipped discs, paraplegia, hemiplegia, quadraplegia, migrane, muscular discorder, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, vegetablur problems, and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GB syndrome).

[edit] Motto

The hospital's motto is "Medical Excellence with a Humane Touch".

[edit] References

• About us. HOSMAT (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-04.