Orthopeadic department at the Lokmanya Hospital is functional right from the inception of the hospital in year 1973. Since then the department is at the forefront of orthopedic activities in the country. The department has been instrumental in hosting various academic and training activities attended by stalwarts and peers, both inland and abroad. Almost all surgeries in current scenario of orthopedics are conducted in state of the art theatres with well-qualified staff and support systems

Replacement of painful crippled arthritic knees is a leading specialty of LOKMANYA Hospitals. LOKMANYA Hospitals pioneered Total Knee Replacement Surgery three decades ago and is the leading practioner in this field. LOKMANYA has performed more than 2,500 Total Knee Replacements successfully over the last 5 years without infection or major complications, making it the preferred destination for knee replacement surgery.An exclusive Laminar Air Flow operation theatre with total body exhaust suits for the operating team keeps the incidence of infection much below global standards. Special anaesthetic techniques with combined spinal epidural anaesthesia and nerve blocks enable us to offer knee replacement to the elderly with co-existing multiple medical disease conditions. Every type of knee deformity from the mild to the most severe can be corrected with a variety of knee prostheses, including the latest Hi-flex knee offering 150 degree flexion.

LOKMANYA is also a pioneer in Computer Navigated Total Knee Replacement which helps in ligament balancing and placement of the prosthesis with zero error. This should vastly improve the longevity of the joint. Considering the functional demands of the patients and faster recovery, LOKMANYA has specializes in Minimally Invasive Total

Knee Replacement. Here Total Knee Replacement is performed with just a small 8-10 cm incision and the patient can recover completely in 3 weeks time. After surgery patients are immediately put on a CPM (Continuous Passive Motion) Machine and encouraged to walk the next day, which decreases the incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis. They are climbing staircase by the 5th day and are discharged on the 7th post – operative day.

Lokmanya Hospitals Recently Procured the state of the art OrthPilot ® Navigation system from the leading German Manufacturer of navigation machines-Aesculap-B.Braun.It is now the first hospital in the region to offer this benefits of OrthoPilot to patients.

OrthoPilot® is used to achieve the main surgical goal of perfect implant alignment without having to perform preoperational examinations or take radiation-intensive and expensive CT or MRI scans.OrthoPilot ensures near to 100% joint alignment post surgery which is not always the result in manual procedures.

Failure of Total Knee Replacements done elsewhere due to implant failure or polyethylene wear and loosening can be remedied by special Revision Knee Prosthesis. Patients with Knee Replacement, who have accidents and periprosthetic fractures, can also be internally fixed with special implants. The results are excellent and tailor made to suit each individual patient.

The Lokmanya performs Replacement and Revision surgery for the Hip. LOKMANYA Hospitals is a pioneer in hip surgery in PCMC ,Pune . Dr. Narendra Vaidya, founder of LOKMANYA, carried out the First Total Hip Replacement in PCMC.

We have the richest experience in Joint Arthroplasty, having performed over 20,000 such operation in the last thirty years. All our operations are performed using minimally invasive techniques. This means that patients walk within hours of their surgery and the recovery is faster.

LOKMANYA has a team of dedicated joint replacement surgeons who perform not only straight forward primary joint replacement surgery but also

•Complicated Ace tabular Reconstruction,
•Correction of Congenital Deformities and
•Lengthening of the Limb in a diseased hip.
These surgeons have trained in hospitals dedicated to joint arthroplasty in USA, Germany, Switzerland, U.K., Italy and Australia. They have performed joint arthroplasty exclusively for the last five years, making them masters of this art.