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Specialised treatment of sports injuries at Apollo
Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, August 29
SPS Apollo Hospital here has become the first medical institution here to offer specialised sports injury treatment to sportspersons and athletes after Dr Mandeep Singh Dhillon joined as head of the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma. Dr Dhillon, a specialist in the field of sports injury management, has just returned from Sri Lanka after a stint with the Sri Lankan cricket team in addition to working for many other professional sports bodies.

Addressing mediapersons here today, Dr Dhillon said he had acquired vast experience in management of sports injuries while tending to Sri Lankan cricketers as well as several international sprinters, rugby players and members of the Sri Lanka swimming and athletics team. “I have worked with Susanthika Jayasinghe, the queen of Asian sprinting in her management of stress fractures.” Before proceeding to Sri Lanka, he had treated and helped golf stalwarts like Chiranjeev Milkha Singh, Amandeep Johl and many other professional golfers.

According to Dr Dhillon, his special interest was management of cricket injuries. He claimed that his work with acclaimed spin bowler Muralitharan during the chucking controversy was instrumental in getting the rule altered to fit modern playing standards. “This was featured widely in the national and international press last year. A special TV programme, ‘The ESPN Cricket Show’ was devoted to this topic with Murali and Ravi Shastri present at the the show.”

Among other international cricketers treated by Dr Dhillon for cricket related injuries during his stay at Colombo included the likes of Brett Lee, Ashley Giles, James Anderson and Yousuf Yohana. Besides working with established players of Sri Lankan cricket team like Muralitharan, Marvan Attapatu, Chaminda Vaas, Kumar Sangakarra, Mahela Jayawardena and Dilshan Tillekratne, Dr Dhillon said he had guided young new cricketers like Farvez Mahroof and D. Perrera during their formative years in methods of injury prevention and rehabilitation. He was officially attached to Sri Lankan cricketers barely two weeks ago during the international cricket series involving India.

Focusing on the facilities proposed to be offered at SPS Apollo for management of sports injuries, he informed that the institution had started a full time department, which would provide state of the art services ranging from knee and shoulder arthroscopy, rehabilitation services for sports trauma and management of the common problem of sports-related overuse injuries.

The medical director of SPS Apollo, Dr Gurcharan Awasthy, and other senior consultants from different specialities were also present at the occasion.

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Ignoring Bahadur for Arjuna award decried
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, August 29
The sports fraternity here is aggrieved over ignoring of 2002 Busan Asian Games gold medalist, shot putter, Bahadur Singh for the Arjuna award.

Players, sports organisers and promoters were unanimous in criticising the committee which decided the names of this year’s Arjuna awards. Mr Teja Singh Dhaliwal, general secretary, Punjab Basketball Association along with Olympian Hardeep Singh Grewal, former international hockey star Sukhvir Singh Grewal, Mr Ramesh Singla, Chairman, Punjab Rural Sports Promotion Council, Mr Prithipal Singh Batala and Mr Kulwant Singh, president and general secretary, respectively, of the council expressed anguish over ignoring Bahadur Singh.

They were of the opinion that the Amateur Atheltics Federation of India had only warned the athlete for the alleged doping offence and was not banned for any tournament. Ignoring him was uncalled for.

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Basketball
Guru Nanak school champs
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, August 29
The local Guru Nanak Senior Secondary School defeated Pothohar Khalsa Senior Secondary School 54-13 to emerge champions in the Ludhiana Inter-School Basketball Tournament (boys, u-14) PAU zone, held at the local Bahratiya Vidya Mandir School her today.

The final match turned out to be a one-sided affair as Guru Nanak School players were far superior than their opponents. The main architects of their win were Rahul and Chander, who chipped in with 25 and 19 points respectively while Sandeep of Pothohar School scored 6 points.

In the match to decide the third spot, hosts BVM School survived many anxious moments before romping home victorious against Green Land Public Senior Secondary School with a wafer-thin margin of one point (17-16). For the winners, Hanish and Dhruve Gupta netted 11 and 6 points respectively while Sarabjot Singh of Green Land School with 10 points fought well but could not save his team from defeat.

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