Sports Injury Centre at Safdarjang Hospital has emerged over the past 5 years as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for providing integrated surgical, diagnostic and rehabilitative services under one roof to the sports persons & the general public. More than 5000 complex surgeries have been performed by the team of doctors at SIC during this period. Some of these surgeries were very rare and have been performed for the first time not only in India but in the world e.g. Autologous chondrocyte implantation, ALL (Anterolateral ligament of knee) Reconstruction, AC Joint Reconstruction, Tibial spine fixation using mini tight rope, Double bundle ACL/PCL Reconstruction, Multiple ligament reconstructions of knee, Double row rotator cuff repair, OATS, Meniscal repairsetc to name a few. The centre has successfully treated and rehabilitated many sports persons who have returned back to their active sports after their surgeries/treatment. On the academic front, the Centre has anchored a number of National and international conferences which were attended and appreciated by the visiting faculty from various countries. The Centre has been approved by the International body of Sports Medicine for imparting training to young orthopaedic surgeons. Sports injury centre is only one of the select few centres which has been approved by ISAKOS as an approved teaching and training centre for young surgeons. (Attach ISAKOS certificate photo)
The Centre has been approved for award of a fellowship (FNB) by the National Board of Examinations which is first of its type in the country. This fellowship is offered to post graduates in orthopaedics who wish to pursue further super specialty training in the field of Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine. The Central Government has also approved starting of MD (Sports medicine) course at SIC from the academic year 2015-16. Starting of Sports Medicine at SIC will help to generate a pool of qualified doctors who apart from dealing with injury prevention and treatment would also help in devising sport specific protocols for performance enhancement. Training modalities:
The centre is regularly conducting arthroscopic cadaveric workshops at VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital which is attended by delegates from all over India and abroad. The delegates are imparted hands on experience on cadavers to enhance their arthroscopy skills. This is the third edition of the Delhi Arthroscopy Course. In this course the delegates are exposed to an extravaganza of wide array of Live Surgeries, unedited. A few Sports persons who have received treatment at SIC:
1. Chaobi Devi, an international Wushu player was operated for ACL reconstruction . She won Gold medal at an international event post surgery.
2. ThyagarajBasanta was operated for Bankart’s repair and rotator cuff repair. He won a Gold medal at international Police Meet in weightlifting.
3. Devrath an international wrestling player was operated for lateral meniscus tear. Post surgery he won the title of Bharat Kesari.
4. ParveshRathi, a national basketball player was operated for ACL reconstruction (Left). He resumed his sports and won a bronze medal at National Games in Feb 2015.
5. Rajnibala, a Judo player was operated for ACL reconstruction (Left). She resumed her sports to win bronze medal in International South Asian Championship (Nepal) in April 2014.
6. Anuradha was operated for ACL reconstruction (Right) and won Bronze nedal in Police Games 2012 post surgery.
7. Manoj Gehlot, a Judo player won Bronze medal in Senior national championship in 2012-13.
8. Kuldeepsingh a Gold Medallist at commonwealth Games was later operated for arthroscopic removal of loose body from his elbow. Two months back he has been operated again for Double bundle ACL reconstruction.
9. Other eminent personalities who have received treatment at SIC are, Raghvendra Singh Rathore (Shooting), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling), Kripa Shankar (Coach of Sushil Kumar), Jagbeer Singh (Hockey)
