 My name is Padmanaban. I am a retired general manager from Bharat Electronics. I am aged to 74. I am a very active person in the sports field. I have been playing cricket, badminton, squash, tennis and billiards. I have been playing this for the past 60 years and towards the 2006 around I had some problems in my left knee but I ignored. In the interest of playing many tournaments I ignored and sometime in last year by October I started limping. At the time I decided that I should do something about that. Orthopedist in Bharat Electronics kept me going for quite some time and finally he advised me to have a total knee replacement. I met our colleague whose wife underwent total knee replacement in Manipal Hospital. The surgeon was Dr. Sunil Gurpur Kini. As soon as I met him I got impressed that I am in the safe hands. Actually he suggested that I can do one knee at a time or both at a time. The choice was mine. But thanks to my wife she decided that I should get done both. So I went and agreed for that. He also gave me a choice of selection of materials, explained the materials, their contents, their actions in the knee. Being an engineer I could appreciate that and I immediately agreed to undergo total knee replacement under Dr. Kini. After surgery I was in the hospital for about 2-3 days. The team of doctors visited me very often and gave me a lot of confidence and then that I should be able to walk the very next day. The team of physiotherapists headed by Mr. Ruma Shankar and his team took care of me very well and made me feel very at home. And I could always feel very confident that I will come back to my normal life soon. I want to be on the tennis court as early as possible. That is why I had my physiotherapist going on for about almost 3 months almost on a daily basis. Now I am totally free of pain. Though I am not able to play right now, Dr. Kini advised me to wait for some time. Now I am going to the gym and taking exercises as recommended by a doctor and also by a personal trainer to maintain all my muscles to strengthen them. During my stay in Manipal Hospital I could visit some of the areas to explore what the facilities available in Manipal Hospital I was amazed to see the range of equipments and also the type of enthusiasm the physiotherapist showed me and which gave me a lot of confidence that I will be able to come back to my normal life sports life again. I am very much thankful to Manipal Hospital for bringing me to this stage and thank you very much.