Motor traffic injuries and falls constitute the burden of most spine injuries.

Fractures of long bones of upper and lower limbs are quite common. If not properly treated they often lead to long-term deformities.

It is a type of soft tissue injury where the muscle and tendons are affected.

Injury is an insult to the body with the resultant adverse effect. This can be brought up by physical insult, chemical/toxic injury or thermal injury

It is any episode of trauma to the head (brain). Mortality is high

Trauma may occur as a result of motor vehicle crash, fights, fall, gunshot, sports, animal bites etc. and is associated with head, musculoskeletal, lacerations, visceral and neurovascular injuries.

Low back pain is a common presenting complaint especially among the elderly. It may be a mild, transient symptom or chronic and disabling complaint.

It is a common form of arthritis, characterized by degenerative loss of articular cartilage, subchondral bony sclerosis, and cartilage and bone proliferation subsequent osteophyte formation.

Gout is a recurrent acute arthritis of peripheral joints which results from deposition, in and about the joints and tendons, of crystals of monosodium urate from supersaturated hyperuricaemic body fluids. The arthritis may become chronic.

Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone, and is most common in children under 12 years. Staphylococci are the most frequent responsible organisms.

This is a condition whereby there is pyogenic infection of large muscle/muscles with extensive necrosis of the involved muscle. This condition occurs more commonly in the tropics.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition whereby the immune system attacks the synovial membrane of joints, initially of the small joints but progressively involving the big joints.