MiST employ expert Trauma and Orthopaedic medics to perform specialist surgery in developing countries across the globe.

What Is Orthopaedic Surgery?

Orthopaedic surgery is particularly vital in disaster regions. It is about improving the lives of people with damage or disease to their bones and joints. This can range from relief of pain and restoration of motion by realigning or reconstructing a joint.

There are few areas in medicine where there is an opportunity to transform people’s lives, whether you are putting them back together after severe trauma, or whether you are giving someone back their independence.

Treatment

Types of surgery range from microsurgical techniques that require an operating microscope to large reconstructions using implants. A key feature of modern orthopaedic surgery is the use of implants e.g. joint replacement, prosthetics, fracture fixation devices.

Areas of treatment include:
Skeletal fractures and joint injuries, bone diseases and joint replacement.
Soft tissue and Nerve injuries.
Damage to extremities eg. the upper limb, hand, lower limb and foot.
Infections of bones and joints.
Locomotor pain.
Bone tumours and amputations
Bone grafts.

The Jaipur Foot

One of the revolutionary medical developments utilised by MiST is 'The Jaipur Foot' prosthetic. An artificial foot that unlike Western limbs is suitable for manoeuvring on rough terrain. MiST work in partnership with The Naya Qadam Trust to set up manufacturing units to produce these low cost yet dynamic prosthetics.

The Jaipur foot technology is simple, reproducible and easily transferable and inexpensive ($30 each) and has proved to be a functional way of treating amputees in developing countries. Our team from India teach and train local technicians the art of making the prosthesis from locally available materials. The Jaipur foot works very well in patients who culturally need to squat for activities of daily living including rituals of prayer.