By 2025, all the practice and complication of traditional bone setter for musculoskeletal injury in Ethiopia will be reduced to nearly zero prevalence.
Our Mission
Collect nationwide data on practice and complication of traditional bone setters for musculoskeletal injury, advocate and create trusted system on modern musculoskeletal injury care for the community and create platform on utilization of modern medical practice throughout the country.
Our Objectives
The objective of this web-based Multicentre study will be to have a Nationwide data on complication of trauma patients previously treated by traditional bone setters. Once the data is collected, the ultimate goal will be to advocate appropriate modern musculoskeletal care for all trauma patients throughout the country.
The practice of bone setters’ dates back to the ancient time and deeply rooted in the communities of many countries in the world. The earlies known medical text called the Edwin Smith papyrus of 1552 BC describes ancient Egyptian treatment of bone related injuries.
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As any of developing countries, our country Ethiopia, is also one of the places where traditional bone setting become a very common practice. Especially those paediatric trauma patients become major victim of these practice and end up with many life and limb threatening complications.
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Many paediatric patients who sustain trauma will go to the nearby bone setter and get massaged many times. Then they will be brought to us once they get complicated which will be too late to save the limb of the patients. In order to save the life of the patients’, we are obliged to remove the limb which leads to disability and impairment.
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Now we are motivated to conduct this multicentre national study to know the width and breadth of traditional bone setter related complications at national level and to prepare scope of practice guidelines for the traditional bone setter with responsible stakeholders in the regional and national level.
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Hawassa University Comprehensive specialized Hospital (HUCSH), Orthopaedics unit is established 4 years back under the department of surgery by Dr. Ephrem Gebrehana, the Pioneer Orthopaedic Surgeon for the University.
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Drs. Mamo D, Bruh W, Yared, Samson T, Sintayehu B and Mengistu G were the orthopaedic surgeons who play a pivotal role for the development of the orthopaedic care until the year of 2019 at different time period.
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We are also highly involved in national and international Collaborations to scale up the orthopaedic service and teaching learning activities in our Institutions.
