Health & Fitness

Sastry Speaks at Orthopaedics Conference

The event was the largest meeting of orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals in the world.

Dr. Akhil Sastry, MD of Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedics Surgery in March, according to a press statement. The prestigious event, at the Venetian/Sands EXPO Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, was the largest meeting of orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals in the world.

Attendance for the AAOS conference exceeds 10,000 members from numerous countries, who share the latest information on orthopaedic treatments, advances, and research. A panel selects presenters at all levels of practice, inviting those chosen with the honor of speaking at the event.

Sastry is a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained surgeon specializing in joint replacement surgery. One of the few surgeons to be trained in Direct Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery, he was the first to perform this procedure in the seacoast through a minimally invasive muscle sparing approach. Sastry is approaching 1,000 successful anterior hip replacements and lectures nationally as a renowned expert on this topic.

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For more information on Dr. Sastry and Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, visit atlanticorthopaedics.org, or call the Portsmouth clinic at 603-431-1121.

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