Dr. Nagalakshmi

Why is Gynaecologic Laparoscopy so Revolutionary?

Designed to enable a surgeon to look into a woman’s pelvic or abdominal area for diagnosis or treatment, gynaecologic laparoscopy is fast gaining popularity as a minimally invasive procedure for a host of female reproductive health problems. This surgery is also commonly known as keyhole surgery.

In recent times, this form of surgery has begun to replace the conventional open surgery, as the latter poses disadvantages like greater blood loss or infection.

Depending on the purpose of the surgery, Gynaecologic Laparoscopy involves the making of one or more very small incisions (about 5mm in length) in the area that must be treated. One of the incision(or cut)s is used by the surgeon to insert a laparoscope (a lighted telescope) into your abdomen for seeing the insides of your cavity. Many surgical procedures, which were performed by making large abdominal incisions, are now being done using laparoscopy.

What are problems this surgical procedure is beneficial for?

The various health problems that it can be used to diagnose, treat or both are:

1. Endometriosis (a condition that is characterised by the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterus)
2. Ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy wherein the foetus develops in the fallopian tube instead of the womb)
3. Sterilisation (blocking of your fallopian tubes through surgery to prevent future pregnancy)
4. Ovarian cysts (fluid-filled sacs that develop on the surface or inside an ovary)
5. Removal of womb, also known as hysterectomy
6. Removal of ovaries
7. Fibroids (non-cancerous growths within or on the surface of the uterus)
8. Gynaecologic cancers such as ovarian cancer, uterine cancer and so on
9. Infertility
10. Pelvic pain

What are the benefits you can expect from gynaecologic laparoscopy as opposed to open surgery?

1. It is no more required to make large abdominal cuts that are required in traditional surgery, thereby reducing your recovery time
2. You suffer from less pain and scarring as the incisions made are much smaller
3. A faster return to your normal routine, usually within a few weeks
4. Serious complications arising from this form of surgery are very rare

'Consult'.

Fitness info - Newer ways to fitness

Fitness buffs are finding ways to perk up their workouts. And it doesn't have to be as boring with fads like clubbercise crawling and paddling the workouts to 90s classics and charts hits in a dark room with glowsticks

Crawling: It can burn upto 1000 calories an hour. It is on own body weight as lot of versions army crab walk inch worm that tone different muscle groups.

Clubbing: Clubbercise is perfect for old ravers. Dance workouts with all the fun of a night out without a hangover the next day and can burn 500 calories in an hour.

Back to school: Rabble is an hour of school games like hopscotch reworked for grownups for newer generations. And it can burn upto 1000 calories in a session.

Paddleboard: No one can forget the picture of naked orlando bloom on paddleboard last summer, but no need to strip off for this fitness craze which tones every muscle in the body and burn 400 calories per hour.

Get wet: Water workouts are set to make a big splash. Aqua aerobics is a circuit training classes in the pool with timed sprints lengths that isolate top or bottom half and planks at the poolside and expects to burn 500 calories per session

www.pmnspeciaality.com