Orthopaedics is a field of medicine that deals with the diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system. This system includes the bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, nerves and muscles. This important complex system is the basis for our movement, bending, jumping, walking, lifting etc to perform various daily life activities. Orthopaedic doctors may treat the patient surgically or otherwise depending on the extent of injury or disability. Orthopaedics was originally a specialty for the children, the word literally meant “The art of correcting and preventing deformities in children”. It was mainly developed with an intention of treating musculoskeletal abnormalities of babies at birth. Today it covers all age groups ranging from neonates to geriatrics and not just deformities but problems arising out of trauma, degenerative processes, tumor growths or infections.