Good to hear from you. I’m an impatient person so progress will never seem fast enough for me! However my osteopath tells me she is amazed at my progress and sees me as far ahead of what she has come to expect with all the others she has worked with. I am walking [...]

Knee replacement procedures normally last for 30 minutes to one and half hours depending on the amount of bone replaced.
Till now surgeons had to pick and choose from a selection of cutting tools in the box to decide which sized implant would fit a particular patient.
New innovations called “Patient specific instrumentation” eliminate about 23 steps [...]

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Ceramic Oxinium knee replacements for American patient
This American patient is the latest person to have received an advanced version of a ceramic knee in India. Ever since its introduction in November 2008, Dr.Venkatachalam has successfully implanted two versions of the ceramic Oxinium knee, Genesis II in Oxinium and the Journey knee in Oxinium. He has [...]

Dr.A.K.Venkatachalam gave two talks at the Middle east Orthopedic conference which was part of the Arab health conference in Jan 2010. This prestigious annual event in Dubai, UAE, is one of the largest CME programs in the world. It is the biggest medical event in the Middle east.
The subject of the talks were1) [...]

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More and more patients of mine are demanding Knee implants made from Oxinium, the revolutionary metal. I have implanted the Genesis II and Journey knees in Oxinium in more than a dozen knees. I performed the first Oxinium knee replacement in November 2008 for a Dutch patient.