Home Patient Stories Knee Surgery Testimonials Total knee replacement surgery TKR in India for uninsured Utah USA patient Total knee replacement surgery TKR in India for uninsured Utah USA patient KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY TESTIMONIAL Transcript of the video My name is Bill N. I'm a Canadian citizen living in the US. The problem was on my right knee. When I was 17 years old I had injured it in a high school football mishap. A few years later I was playing ice hockey and I skated the wrong way and my knee popped out again. I saw a physician in Canada where we were living at the time and they told me there was nothing they could do for me but I would have problems later in life. And that was the end of it until last year I was golfing and I twisted the wrong way and I heard a pop and my knee started to swell up. Pain started to come and I was unable to walk properly and function properly and from that time on within 6 months period I was handicapped. I saw a doctor and medical people and did an MRI and found out that the knee was destroyed and I needed to have a knee operation. That led to my doing research in both Canada, the US and then to India. India was the most economical place to be. I researched the doctors out, the facilities here, the people they had dealt with. We contacted a company called Healthbase in Boston who are a medical tourism company who responded to our questions and were able to provide to our satisfaction the necessary information so we felt comfortable in making the decision because we were going half way around the world and spending a lot of money to make sure that we were going to get the proper care. When I was in the United States, they took an MRI of my right knee, found that the knee was injured and needed to be taken care of. They also found an aneurysm under the right leg and it was of such a proportion that the medical people here felt it was necessary that it needed to be attended to as well. So when I came here they did a full body MRI and found that the aneurysm under the knee was not of the magnitude that it was originally intended to be. However, they did find another aneurysm in my abdomen area and that was of a serious nature. And so we determined at that point after speaking to the vascular surgeon and the cardiologist that we needed to have that taken care of as well. So following the knee operation, we waited a week and a half and then undertook the surgery or the procedure for the repairing of the aneurysm. One of the best parts about coming here was they did a full body MRI knowing that if there is one in one place that there possibly be maybe one in another place. And so they wanted just to make sure that there were no other areas that needed to be attended to and we found it and I am glad they did. My first impressions are very positive. It started at the airport with the greeting of the gentleman, the assuredness that we are going to the right facility and the facility itself. This room is a luxurious room for a hospital. My wife could stay with me. That was really an integral part of our decision-making that she was able to come with me and was included in the package that was put together. The Wockhardt people are very professional. The surgeons were seeing us on a more than daily basis - often times, 3 and 4 times during the day. They would come in and check on us to make sure that we were adequately taken care of - that our facilities were adequate, that the treatment and the care were being adequate, and any questions about our well-being was taken care of as well as the marketing department would come in on a regular basis and making sure that we were dealt with properly. For the last year I've never walked without pain. I had so much pain and it became worse and worse that I was unable to function properly. Since I've had the operation from day one of my starting to walk, which they got after me the day after surgery, I've not had pain in my leg. The muscles are stretchy which is considerable; there is some pain there but not the pain in the bone. And that's just because of the exercise we are doing and it will continue to be that way until we become fully mobile again.   < Prev [ Back ]

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