Orthopaedics is all about your bones, joints and muscles. The problems affecting these body parts can be from birth or it can be developmental during childhood or it can be traumatic because of some accident and injury or it can be due to some cancerous growth or it can be due to some metabolic disturbance s or it can be due to degeneration of aging.
Examples of diseases you get from childhood are congenital telepes equinovarus a condition in which the foot and ankle of a child has a deformity.
Any defect in the body during birth or after birth can easily be diagnosed by the parents and then the parents can bring the child to Orthopaedic doctor.
Example of developmental disease is a development of a deformity like genu varum or genu valgus in a growing child. It's a knee deformity and can be corrected.
You can get sprains, strains, fracture due to accidents and injury. These all are treatable by plasters or operations. Bone tumors if diagnosed early is well treated by radiotherapy and surgery. Metabolic bone condition such as osteoporosis is very common and nowadays many drugs are available to treat this disease. Osteoarthritis is an aging process which effects our joints and can be treated by joint replacement.
