King Fahd Specialist Hospital put an end to the suffering of a patient to get rid of the pain of roughness in the right knee that had been with her for a long time and caused her complications and difficulty in movement and walking.
Qassim Health Cluster explained that after the patient attended the orthopedic clinic and was submitted to the necessary medical and x-rays, the medical team decided to perform a 20-minute surgery for the patient through the musculoskeletal system, which is managed through a few knee nerves to remove pain in a large proportion and because of that, it the physical therapy of the patient's knee was facilitated without pain.
It is worth mentioning that radiofrequency for neurotomy has several uses, including knee roughness pain and spinal joints, and treatment is limited to cases that do not want to replace the knee joint or are medically unsuitable for the joint replacement process, or patients who have roughness at an early age to switch the joint. This is a highly safe one-day operation.
The Health Cluster indicated that a total of 77,157 radiographs had been taken since the beginning of this year, indicating that the number of CT scans was 16,708, while 13,857 ultrasound examinations were conducted, and MRI examinations recorded 4,987 examinations, and nuclear medicine imaging amounted to 1534, bone density 662 scans. The statistics showed that the total number of interventional x-rays carried out was 796 radiographs, and mammogram x-rays amounted to 2590 examinations, and the number of interventional radiology procedures was 1849