Dr. Joseph’s Ortho Clinic was started in the year 2001 by Dr. S. Joseph, a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon of the Thanjavur region. Now a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Joseph has a lot of firsts to his credit. He was the first to start internally fixing fractures on a regular basis in the Thanjavur region. He was also the first to introduce various modalities of fracture fixation like the Illizarov frame, the use of LRS fixators, the use of interlocked interlocking nails way back in the early nineties, the use of AO screw fixation for fractures of the neck of femur, the surgical fixation of spinal injuries using various instrumentations over the years, a pioneer in arthroscopy in this region etc.