We are proud to announce a milestone achievement in orthopaedic care at Saideep Sahyadri Hospital, Ahilyanagar! Under the expert hands of Dr. Abhijeet Nalkar, our renowned orthopaedic surgeon, we have successfully performed the hospital’s first Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) hip replacement surgery—a cutting-edge, minimally invasive technique that offers faster recovery and superior outcomes for patients.
What is Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) Hip Replacement?
The Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) is an advanced surgical technique for total hip replacement where the surgeon accesses the hip joint from the front (anterior) rather than the side or back. This method involves minimal muscle cutting, as the surgeon works between natural muscle planes, reducing trauma to surrounding tissues.
Key Benefits of DAA Hip Replacement:
✔ Minimally Invasive – No major muscles are cut, leading to less post-operative pain
✔ Faster Recovery – Patients often walk the same or next day with reduced rehabilitation time
✔ Lower Dislocation Risk – Enhanced stability due to preserved muscle and soft tissue
✔ Precise Implant Positioning – Improved accuracy for better long-term function
✔ Smaller Incision – Less scarring compared to traditional approaches
Why Choose Saideep Sahyadri Hospital for DAA Hip Replacement?
our orthopedic team combines expertise, advanced technology, and patient-centered care to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Who Needs a Hip Replacement?
If you suffer from:
Severe hip pain due to arthritis (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis)
Hip fractures or avascular necrosis (bone death)
Chronic stiffness & difficulty walking, sitting, or climbing stairs
Failed previous hip treatments
DAA hip replacement could be the ideal solution for long-lasting pain relief and restored mobility.
Kidney and prostate disorders can significantly impact your quality of life, causing discomfort, pain, and even serious health complications if left untreated. At Saideep Sahyadri Hospital, we understand the challenges patients face with urinary and kidney-related conditions, which is why we offer state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment solutions under the expert care of our specialized urology and nephrology team.
Whether you’re struggling with frequent urination, weak urine flow, blood in urine, kidney dysfunction, or prostate enlargement, our advanced medical interventions—including laser surgeries, minimally invasive procedures, and dialysis—are designed to provide effective relief. With government-approved free treatments available, we ensure that high-quality healthcare is accessible to all.
Don’t let urinary or kidney problems disrupt your life. Visit Saideep Sahyadri Hospital today and take the first step toward better health with our compassionate, expert care.
We are thrilled to share a proud moment for Saideep Sahyadri Hospital! For the first time in Ahilyanagar, Dr. Albin Paul and Dr. Rushikesh have successfully cleared the DNB Medicine Exam with flying colors. ✨👏
This incredible achievement reflects their hard work, dedication, and the unwavering support of our expert physician mentors. With 2 DNB Medicine doctors now part of our team, we are proud to offer more advanced and specialized care to our community, ensuring the highest standards of healthcare excellence.
A heartfelt thank you to our mentors and congratulations to the entire Saideep Sahyadri family! Here’s to a brighter, healthier future together
Bipolar Disorder refers to a mental condition in which the patient suffers from extreme shifts in mood. The symptoms may vary from person to person, including a significantly elevated mood known as mania.
They can also entail an episode of severe depression. Bipolar disorder is also popularly known as manic depression or bipolar disease across the globe.
There is no absolute cure for a bipolar patient. These individuals may feel uncomfortable living their lives, doing daily chores and tasks, and maintaining healthy relationships. However, the symptoms of this disease could be managed by certain medications and treatments.
BIPOLAR DISORDER
BIPOLAR DISORDER TRIVIA
A surprising fact about bipolar disorder is that nearly 2.8% of U.S. adults, i.e., around 5 million people, suffer from this disease. Yes, you heard it right. This is not a rare phenomenon. However, the symptoms might start showing after the person has turned 25.
Mood swings may differ for every individual. For some people, depression caused by bipolar disorder could last two weeks. The mania episode could last from several days to weeks too.
Some individuals find a rare occurrence of any bipolar attack in their lives, forex, one or two times a year. In contrast, some may find it a large part of their daily lives.
TYPES
Bipolar disease is broadly bifurcated into three types-:
Bipolar I
Bipolar II
Cyclothymia
BIPOLAR I
This type of disorder affects men and women equally. Bipolar I is defined as the occurrence of at least one manic episode. The patient may feel hyper or depressed before or after one manic episode.
BIPOLAR II
People with Bipolar disorder type II experience a significant episode of depression that lasts for at least two weeks. These patients may also feel a significant hypomanic episode that could last for four days. However, this type of bipolar disorder can usually be seen in women.
CYCLOTHYMIA
Individuals suffering from cyclothymia have an episode of both hypomania and depression. However, the symptoms are shorter and mild than the mania and depression in Bipolar I and Bipolar II. Patients of this disease may only find a couple of months that are stable.
While discussing your symptoms with your doctor, he would tell you what kind of bipolar disorder you might have.
BIPOLAR DISORDER SYMPTOMS
During the episodes of bipolar disease, the patients may fall prey to 3 types of symptoms; mania, hypomania, and depression.
Individuals suffering from mania may go through an emotional high. They can feel highly excited, euphoric, or full of energy. While experiencing mania, people can indulge in activities like-:
Substance abuse
Unprotected sex
Spending splurge
Hypomania is related to type II bipolar disorder. Although this is a lot like mania, the severity is a lot less. People suffering from hypomania can go around doing their routine tasks but may feel a slight change in their mood.
An episode of depression can make you feel:
Deeply sad or anxious
Hopelessness or loss of energy
Guilt or suicidal thoughts
BIPOLAR DISORDER IN MEN
Although bipolar disease is gender-neutral, it can happen to both men and women, but men’s symptoms can differ from what the women feel. You could tell if a man is bipolar if-:
Early age diagnosis
May experience more episodes than women, especially mania
Have substance usage issues
Men with a bipolar episode are less likely to ask for help or guidance than women and are more likely to die by suicide.
BIPOLAR DISORDER IN WOMEN
Some of the symptoms that could differentiate women with bipolar disorder are-:
Late diagnosis; maybe late 30s
Have fewer episodes of mania and more depression
Usually, succumb to rapid cycling, four or more episodes in a year.
Have a higher risk of alcohol misuse
BIPOLAR DISORDER IN CHILDREN
Diagnosing bipolar symptoms in children can be tricky, especially since they don’t show typical signs like adults. Sometimes the symptoms get overlapped by other symptoms of a variety of different conditions usually faced by children.
However, in the last few years, doctors and mental health professionals have found a way to gauge the symptoms of bipolar disease in children. Usually, the diagnosis takes weeks or months, but people can manage the symptoms after some treatments and medications.
Some symptoms of mania and depression in children are-;
Speaking too fast
Having risky behaviors
Insomnia
Having trouble focusing
Feeling sad or anxious.
Complaining about frequent aches
Suicidal thoughts
Lack of appetite
CAUSES
Bipolar disorder is a common phenomenon, but it is still one mystery that doctors and researchers cannot solve. It is not yet clear why do some people develop a condition like this. But there are some probable causes of bipolar disorder. These are-:
Genetics- if you have someone in your family with a history of bipolar disorder, you will likely develop a condition like this.
Environmental factors- it is not just the body that is responsible for developing bipolar disorder, but external factors, such as-:
Trauma
Stress
Extreme illness
Brain deficiency- if your brain is not working correctly or has abnormalities, you will be more likely to develop a condition like this.
BIPOLAR DISORDER TREATMENT
There is no absolute cure for bipolar disease. Although your doctor would use several tests and examinations to diagnose your symptoms, such as
Mental health examination
Mood journal
Physical exam
Several treatments could help you manage or curb your symptoms. Some natural remedies may also come in handy such as-:
Medications such as mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, antidepressants, etc.
Physiotherapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoeducation, etc.
Other treatments may include; sleep medication, supplements, acupuncture, etc.
Lifestyle changes
If you found out that you have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, don’t worry. You are not alone. There are around 60 million people around the world coping with the same stress.
Educate yourself and those around you. Seek medical health and guidance. People with depression may have suicidal thoughts. You should take suicide very seriously.
The gravity of the problem of Antibiotic resistance is immense. Let us try to illustrate. Antibiotics have started to fail. Resistant bacteria already cause more than 750,000 deaths every year. This number is predicted to rise dramatically if radical actions are not taken.
Antibiotics – The misused miracle
Antibiotic resistance has become one of the greatest threats to global health.
Antibiotic resistance kills. 214,000 newborns are estimated to die every year from blood infections (sepsis) caused by resistant bacteria – representing at least 30% of all sepsis deaths in newborns.
Antibiotic resistance spreads silently across the world. More than 60% of the populations in some areas carry multidrug-resistant bacteria in their normal bacterial flora.
Antibiotic resistance is costly. It is estimated that the median overall increased cost to treat a resistant bacterial infection is around 700 USD, equal to over one year’s wages of a rural worker in India. Novel treatments for multidrug-resistant infections can cost up to tens of thousands of dollars, making them unaffordable for many.
Antibiotic resistance is here now. Resistance has already developed to the last-line antibiotics for gonorrhea, which in some cases is nearly untreatable. With 106 million new cases/year, the consequences of total resistance would be devastating.
Antibiotic resistance is alarming, but what is it, how does it happen and what can be done? Let’s start with a little history and science.
Why should we care about this issue?
Antibiotic drugs have revolutionized medicine and made our modern way of life possible. In addition to their essential role in the clinic, antibiotics are used in a huge array of non-medical applications, from promoting growth in livestock to preserving building materials from contamination to treating blight in orchards. However, overuse threatens their efficacy due to the promotion and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Antibiotics target and inhibit essential cellular processes, retarding growth, and causing cell death. However, if bacteria are exposed to drugs below the dose required to kill all bacteria in a population (the minimum bactericidal concentration or MBC), they can mutate and resist antibiotic treatment via natural selection for resistance-conferring mutations. These genetic mutations can arise from the adoption of a plasmid encoding a resistance gene or by mutation to the bacterial chromosome itself.
The concern around the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria is compounded by the fact that the discovery of new antibiotics is a fleeting rare event. Most classes of antibiotics on the market were discovered in the mid-to-late 20th century. Thus, there is a limited arsenal of drugs to fight resistant bacteria, and bacteria can be resistant to multiple drugs at a time.
Given the importance of antibiotics to modern medicine, and the growing apprehension surrounding the threat of resistance, scientists are studying every aspect of antibiotic resistance.
Are bacteria learning to fight back?
Although it seems like bacteria are in some way ‘learning’ how to fight back against us, the development of antibiotic resistance is an inevitable and natural part of bacterial evolution. Each time a bacterium multiplies, it divides into two and copies its DNA.
Imperfections in this process mean that in a population of millions, billions, or even trillions of multiplying bacterial cells, there are lots of ‘mistakes’, know as mutations, in the DNA of each successive generation.
Owing to the sheer number of variants, over time a tiny proportion of individuals will, by chance, develop a quirk that means they are immune to certain antibiotics. A mutation may, for example, subtly change the structure of a key molecule that the antibiotic targets, rendering it ineffective. Or, it may mean the bacteria start producing a chemical that destroys the antibacterial properties of the drug.
What’s causing the problem?
Antibiotic resistance becomes a big problem when antibiotics are overused. Using an antibiotic destroys a lot of bacteria in a person’s body – both good and bad strains. Antibiotics are found to be used indiscriminately, like taking wrong antibiotics or inappropriate dose and for the inappropriate duration; patients not taking the full course of antibiotics as they stop it soon after feeling better, using antibiotics for viral diseases, etc. These types of misuses lead to the rise of antibiotic resistance. The more often antibiotics are used, the more likely it is that drug-resistant bacteria will come to dominate in any given location. And it’s not just human medicine that helps spread antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotics are also given to animals for disease prevention and growth promotion. Such antibiotics expose a large number of animals and thus bacteria, for more extended period, and at lower doses. This leads to the evolution of resistance. Consuming the animals as food or by close contact with such animals, humans get such resistant bacteria. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from the hospital, poultry farm, or any other place spread in the environment. These bacteria cause infectious diseases which are difficult to treat.
What you can do to help?
To help fight antibiotic resistance and protect yourself against infection:
Don’t take antibiotics unless you’re certain you need them. An estimated 30% of the millions of prescriptions written each year are not needed. Always ask your doctor if antibiotics will really help. For illnesses caused by viruses — common colds, bronchitis, and many ear and sinus infections — they won’t.
Finish your pills. Take your entire prescription exactly as directed. Do it even if you start feeling better. If you stop before the infection is completely wiped out, those bacteria are more likely to become drug-resistant.
Get vaccinated. Immunizations can protect you against some diseases that are treated with antibiotics. They include tetanus and whooping cough.
Stay safe in the hospital. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are commonly found in hospitals. Make sure your caregivers wash their hands properly. Also, ask how to keep surgical wounds free of infection.
Prevent transmission of pathogen: The patient should maintain proper hygiene and sanitization; hand washing should be promoted, direct contact with the patient should be avoided to prevent the spread of communicable disease.
