 Hi, I am Dr. Vamstri Krishna, my hand surgeon and Dr. Malti Maripal Hospital, Bangalore. So before I speak about my specialty, I would like to talk about the importance of hand. So hand is a very complex and important part of our body, which we use for all our activities, whether it's writing, driving or playing, whatever it's very important organ. Apart from our daily activities, hand also acts like a first line defense. When you think we are coming across an injury, you use your hand to protect yourself from the injury. So thereby hand is very prone to be injured the most part in our body. So coming to hand surgery, so what is hand surgery? Hand surgery is a speciality in the modern medicine, which is nothing but a combination of a plastic surgeon as well as an orthopedic surgeon. Because hand has got very important joints, muscles, nerves which are microscopic, which requires a special skill to bring it back to normal alignment. So when do you see a hand surgeon? So when you have issues with your upper limb, right from shoulder to the fingertips like pain, swelling, numbness, inability to move or any injury. So just because you're consulting a hand surgeon doesn't mean you end up with surgery. There are other many treatment modalities which can be cured with just plain medication, injections, therapy. And if surgery is required, there are options like a keyhole surgery or what we call as minimally invasive surgery or if indicated will go for the open surgeries. So hand surgeons are skilled to operate as I said before from the shoulder to the fingertips which includes joint replacements, fractures, any nerve pathologies like what we call as carpal tunnel in rooms or cuboidal tunnels in rooms, any crushing injury or a mangled limb and which also extends to operate on brachial plexus injuries. So when the hand are very prone to get into a very devastating injury, in such instances we need to meet the right doctor within the appropriate time. So what we call as a golden hour, that is within 6 to 8 hours within the injury. If you see a right doctor at the right place, the limb can be saved and you can get back to your normal life. We at Manipal hospitals have a world-class infrastructure and services right from the ambulance services to pick you up from the site of injury to the emergency. And we have 24-7 faculty, me and my team. Other requirements like microscope, arthroscopes and micro instruments which are required to treat all the hand conditions and post-operatively we have a good hand therapist and ICU care if required.