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Aashid Chandra’s heavy yawn, close earlier a peaceful slumber connected Vivek Express (22503) bound for Dibrugarh aboriginal Friday (October 17, 2025), turned into an agonising ordeal. The 24-year-old younker from West Bengal had nary thought that his jaw would soon beryllium locked open. His jaw joints had dislocated, truthful helium was incapable to adjacent his rima and was successful terrible pain.
As panic acceptable in, his comparative alerted the travelling summons examiner (TTE), who, successful turn, informed the railway authorities astatine Palakkad. At 2.30 a.m., erstwhile the bid pulled into Palakkad Junction, ENT surgeon Jithin P.S. from the Palakkad Railway Hospital was waiting connected the platform, acceptable to help.
Seated connected a level bench, Aashid gestured to Dr. Jithin. He was incapable to talk oregon swallow saliva owed to the locked jaw. Dr. Jithin diagnosed a temporomandibular associated (TMJ) dislocation and manually reduced it utilizing a gauze bandage.
Dr. Jithin fixed the contented successful little than 3 minutes, adjacent though specified dislocations whitethorn request infirmary treatment. He had handled TMJ reductions successful hospitals before, but this was his archetypal clip treating a rider connected a train.
Video went viral
A video of Dr. Jithin reducing Aashid’s TMJ subluxation, shared by the Railways, has gone viral connected societal media. Many responded positively and shared their ain experiences.
Meanwhile, doctors warned that manual simplification of a jaw dislocation should not beryllium tried without aesculapian expertise.
“If an inexperienced idiosyncratic tries it, they whitethorn hazard bony fracture and adjacent arterial injury. The unit a doc applies is critical. Laypeople often cannot present the close force,” said Dr. Jithin.
Jaw dislocation, though rare, tin origin terrible trauma. It whitethorn beryllium triggered by excessive opening of rima portion yawning and dental procedures, accidents oregon seizures.
ENT specialists, maxillofacial surgeons, trained exigency physicians and orthopaedists usually grip jaw dislocation. Treatment usually occurs successful a infirmary aft symptom alleviation injection. ENT doctors pass that manual simplification is not arsenic elemental arsenic it seems.
Also, portion congratulating the Railways and Dr. Jithin, galore responders to the video were besides funny to cognize the mode to interaction the Railways for on-train aesculapian emergencies.
Rail app
Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Madhukar Roat urged passengers to usage the Rail Madad mobile app for aesculapian assistance and queries. They tin besides dial 138 toll-free successful a aesculapian exigency oregon question TTE assistance.
Mr. Roat said the effect clip to passengers’ exigency calls has noticeably reduced, boosting Railways’ wide efficiency.
