Orthopedics is the medical specialty that uses clinical, physical and surgical methods to treat, correct diseases, injuries and bone, muscle, tendon, joint and ligament deformities, and everything related to the locomotor system, skeletal system and structures associates.
Blanc's body of specialists in spine diseases has some of the best professionals in the field, highly qualified to deal with cases of low back pain (back pain) and neck pain (cervical spine pain/torticollis) in the acute and chronic phases. Herniated disc diseases, lumbar and cervical spinal canal stenosis, scoliosis (spine deformities) and spinal tumors are also treated by our professionals who have experience both by conventional approach and by minimally invasive techniques (such as spinal endoscopies ). With modern and advanced technology for treating chronic pain, promoting better quality of life for the patient.
Currently with less invasive methods for the treatment of meniscal diseases, which allows the performance of procedures with the possibility of hospital discharge on the same day, using arthroscopy as a method both for diagnosis and for the definitive treatment of the lesion, always obeying the specific indications for each case.
With the advances in arthroscopy, allowing for minimally invasive surgeries, we have expanded the number of pathologies that can be treated on an outpatient basis. Rotator cuff injuries, perhaps the most frequent degenerative injury to the shoulder, among others, result in a significant improvement in the quality of life of patients. To summarize, we can say that, currently, for pathologies of the shoulder and elbow, current orthopedic medicine has an adequate answer to the patients' pretensions.
It works on traumatic injuries, degenerative changes, sports injuries, deformities and all orthopedic pathologies that affect this segment of the human body.
It works in the treatment of upper limbs, such as the hand and wrist, covering trauma, congenital malformations and degenerative pathologies. Fractures, tendon and nerve injuries, loss of skin lining are cases performed on an outpatient basis.
It works in the surgical treatment of the hip, using the most modern methodologies, in minimally invasive surgeries and surgeries using prosthesis implants.
