Dr. Musaab Al Samarrai
Orthopedic & Sport Surgeon
Painful and Numb Hand ?
While typing or writing or even during sleep, you may feel a pain and numbness in your wrist and fingers specially thumb and index, you may have “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome” in which a nerve travelling in your wrist got compressed and start to send a painful stimulus with numbness in your fingers, you may need a study to assess the degree of nerve compression and according to it you may receive best management
Most Common Cause of Elbow Pain?
You may have elbow pain when you open a jar or try to lift an object or when you press door handle, commonly it’s called “Tennis Elbow” which is tendon inflammation due to recent overload .. best treated by rest with few medications and bandage, sometimes in resistant cases we may need to inject around the inflammation with anti-inflammatory medicine or clean it by surgery
How To Treat Shoulder Pain?
Shoulder pain has a lot of reasons, your tendons may become inflamed by overuse or bad shoulder posture, sometimes you may get partial or full tears of cuff tendons depending on your soft tissue health and the severity of fall or trauma, your joint may get damaged with age or a previous fracture, best way to determine the problem and solve it is clinical examination then further imaging
Heel Pain ?
A heel pain during first steps after prolonged sitting or sleeping is a common problem, it may occur due to inflammation in a tissue band under your sole as becomes tight which is called “Plantar Fasciitis”, this inflammation may develop bone spur under your heel, it is treated by medication and insoles with some physiotherapy workouts to stretch this band, sometimes it needs injection or surgery to release this band
How to treat backache?
Backache is the most common reason of visiting an orthopedic surgeon, you might lift a heavy object or stayed for long time in bad posture or fell down on your back, first we need to know what exactly happened to your back by clinical check then with help of advanced imaging we may be able to relief your pain mostly by simple medications and instructions with some physiotherapy, rarely patients may need surgery specially if associated with leg pain and numbness
When to replace the joint?
With age, our joints wear and start to develop arthritis (damage), initially we treat it with life style modification and some medications with or without injections inside the joint, but when it reaches advanced level of damage we replace them with artificial joint which is one of the most successful procedure which improves quality of life
Trigger Finger
Your finger may become painful as it moves and sometimes gets locked in position with a click while moving it back, this happens when your tendon has an inflammation which limits its motion under a band in your terminal part of palm, this can be treated by rest and local injections to reduce inflammation, sometimes we may need to release the band by surgery to return your finger to move painless again
What is Arthroscopy?
Arthroscopy is a key-hole procedure used to treat problems inside the joints with minimal invasive access, most commonly shoulder rotator cuff repair, shoulder instability, knee meniscal or ligament tears like ACL tear among footballers
How To Treat Sport Injury?
Sport injuries are common and they can be treated according to the severity of injury ranging from some bandage and resting, next is physiotherapy and medications, last is surgical intervention either by repair or reconstruction of ligaments, now there are a lot of advanced implants and techniques with minimal invasive procedures to restore function and return to play again
About Us
Dr. Musaab Al Samarrai is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, specialized in trauma, joint replacement and sport injuries .. he was graduated from Sulaimaniya University School of medicine in 2011, then proceeded with specialty training in Arab Board then took several fellowships about sport medicine in different countries around the world