This is story of Mr. Santhosh Kumar Gupta, 88, had been struggling with osteoarthritis in both knees for years. Despite his overall ...

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[Music] I'm Santosh Kumar Gupta a retired naval officer I decided to come to Naran Hospital in Bangalore for my knee operation that it took me many years to decide to have knee Replacements the reason is that I was other is quite fit and and I had no problems medical problems and although I'm 87 years old my problem seemed to be only that my knees were giving a lot of problem and I was not enjoying walking at all in fact it is like a punishment to me if somebody said you better walk a little bit and I just didn't like the idea um both the knees were operated on Tuesday and today is only the fourth day and I'm ready to go home and uh I've really had no such great pain that I couldn't tolerate it and very soon everything improved faster than I ever thought and now I'm transformed I think I'm now looking forward to walking more and more every day after I get discharged and I go through a normal procedure of physiotherapy uh and under supervision I am I feel very confident that uh if I'm a little bit more sensible that don't overdo anything and'll be walking with pleasure again I can only thank do abinandan Punit who's a young doctor a very eminent and the hospital uh owner or the proprietor and himself a great doctor Dr deete I'm indeed extremely glad that I landed up at the right place and at the right time and the right doctor hello I'm Dr abinandan ESP Punit I'm a consultant orthopedic surgeon with a special interest in robotic joint replacement and sports medicine at narana Hill City Bangalore today we are going to discuss about TK in elderly people often ask am I too old for knee replacement now there is no age limit for carrying out uh near replacement usually ually a knee replacement is recommended for patients who are above 60 up to age of 80 years now there is certain subset of patients who are above 80 who often are physiologically fit and might benefit from near replacement the to answer the question there is actually there's no age limit the even in elderly if they're physiologically fit and they have a good health uh after safe anesthetic evaluation we can um do any replacement uh in a very elderly population this is a story of mahavir chakra rare Admiral SK Gupta this gentleman is 88 year old having osteoarthritis in his both knees he has been suffering from knee pain from last many years he is a quite a fit individual and very young at heart and wanted to do lot many things uh in his life and the only limiting factors were his niece after time and a thorough consultation um he decided that he will give a try for to undergo any replacement uh we at Nar H City uh uh embar the Journey of carrying out uh knee replacement on this individual um who is elderly and we did all the necessary evaluation to make sure that he was suitable candidate for knee replacement um after uh meticulous planning we did a simultaneous bilateral robotic assisted knee replacement um surgery went very well and with on the same day we were able to make him walk and uh with the enhanced recovery he pathway he was discharged on day five and he he was very much delighted with his KNE replacement uh with in coming days he progressed

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