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Dr. Samih Tarabichi

MBCHB, MD, FRCPS (CANADA), FAAOS (USA)

(5.0)

4 reviews

Orthopedic Surgeon | Orthopedic Surgery

English, Arabic

  • Al Zahra Hospital, Al Barsha

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Dr Samih Tarabichi, left burjeel hospital and he currently working in Alzahra hospital Dubai, kindly update your information my time was wasted because of this old information (DrFive comment: Thank you for the update, it has been updated accordingly)

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(Translated by Google) Best hospital and the best care all thanks to the doctors, led by Samih Tarabichi and every success to those employed therein - by المطيري الديحاني (Original) افضل مستشفى وافضل رعايه كل الشكر للدكاتره وعلى راسهم سميح الطرابيشي وكل التوفيق للعاملين فيه

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(Translated by Google) Senior hospital doctors and staff, I extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to Dr. Samih Tarabichi and for all staff Barjeel hospital for their interest in the health of Abi Najem Khalfan - by bader alkhalfan (Original) مستشفى مميز من اطباء و موظفين ، ‏اتقدم بجزيل الشكر وعظيم الامتنان للدكتور سميح الطرابيشي و لجميع موظفين مستشفى برجيل لاهتمامهم بصحة ابي نجم الخلفان

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A perfect place for orthopedic surgeries. Thanks Dr. Samih Tarabichi and the team. - by imthihaz rasool

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Dr. Samih Bakri Al Tarabichi was born in 1953 and brought up in Syria, Damascus. In 1978, he finished his medical degree in Damascus and made the decision to move to the United States Of America to continue his study and involve more in the scientific researches. In 1979, at Illinois University, IL, was where the first station in the United States for training and fellow research,  Dr. Tarabichi mainly was focusing on joint replacement, he trained in Ohio State University and graduated from Mcgill University in 1987. After graduation Dr. Tarabichi started practicing medicine in Citrus Memorial Hospital 502 Highland Boulevard Inverness, Florida where he practiced there over 10 years and his main focus was knee and hip replacement.
 
In 1996, Dr. Tarabichi announced his plans to move to Dubai, his colleges were surprised: “why would you leave the city who orthopedic surgeons describe as paradise”, their argument was there was simply no demand for joint replacement surgery, which was Dr Tarabichi’s speciality. It was a well-established fact, they said, that people in the Middle East did not want the procedure. And if they did want it, he was told, “they flew to Europe to get it”.
 
Dr Tarabichi carried on regardless, willing to take a hit to his career to allow his four children to see their grandparents more often. In his first full year in Dubai, Dr Tarabichi performed a total of seven transplants. After few years, he expected to perform more than 850 transplants per year, making him one of the busiest joint-replacement specialists in the world.


After few years of practicing medicine Dr. Tarabichi, noticed the facts that total knee replacement (TKR) patients have difficulty performing certain tasks involving deep knee flexion which are part of activities of daily living (ADL). Muslims’ lifestyles heavily depend on the ability to fully flex the knee, and many daily activities, such as praying, social encounters (attending the Sheikh’s majlis), dining or even using the hole bathroom, are carried out on the ground  “These people, if they can’t bend the knee, this is going to be very distressful,” he said, referring to the requirements of the five-times daily ritual of the call to prayer, as well as the preference of many south Asian men to squat on their haunches when they relax. Not to mention the fact that some even go to the bathroom in that position, too.


Working as a consultant to Zimmer, a US manufacturer of orthopaedic products, Dr Tarabichi helped develop knee implants that allow for “full flexion capability,” or bending by as much as 150 degrees, enough for the recipient of a replacement joint to pray five times per day or relax comfortably in the grass or take care of any other business that may come up. But that was not all. Dr Tarabichi observed that Arab knees are structurally different from those he had seen in the West. The femur bone is generally narrower and set at a slightly sharper angle, and the cruciate ligament more relaxed and malleable


The Flex implant has been designed to accommodate this by giving up to 165 degrees of flexion. One-thousand and thirty-two (1032) TKRs were performed on patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis using the LPS Flex mobile bearing implant over a five year period with a minimum of 1 year post-operative follow up. The results were then compared to a series obtained from the Zimmer Feedback database which is managed independently by the Audit and Research Office, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. 44% of pre-op cases had full flexion as per our set criteria. There were no apparent differences in patello-femoral pain levels, complications or Knee Society score despite the fact that our patients had, on average, an increase in maximum flexion along with an increase in functional ability.


Dr. Tarabichi currently holds six US patents covering surgical instrumentations and implant design for total joint replacement. 


Dr. Samih Tarabichi's specialty is Orthopedic Surgery and currently works as a Orthopedic Surgeon.

He speaks English, Arabic.

 

Practicing Locations of Dr. Samih Tarabichi

Dr. Samih Tarabichi is practicing at Al Zahra Hospital, Al Barsha

 

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