Yes, you can take a bath with this plaster and make it wet and it won’t get spoiled. Sounds impossible. But it is true. The new water resistant padding under the fiber cast has made it possible. Earlier when plaster was applied for fractures, one had to protect it from water and could not take a proper bath for weeks or months. Water resistant plaster is a revolutionary concept as the water gets expelled from under the plaster, thereby keeping it dry.

This involves injecting a medicine inside the joint (mostly Knee Joint) to control pain and inflammation in severely arthritic joints. Commonly used medicines are Hyaluronic acid or steroids. This procedure is used in advanced arthritis of knee joints to relieve pain and swelling when Joint replacement cannot be done or patient does not want to get surgery done. This is a simple, low cost procedure and can be done in OPD setting.

Sometimes with accidents or sports injuries, the bones of a joint gets displaced from their normal position and causes severe pain and swelling in the affected joint and immobilizes the joint. This joint needs to be reduced to their normal position under local or General anaesthesia so as to relieve pain and swelling and restore normal functioning.