Joint pain and back pain disable more than 170 million Indians, incapacitating them from normal professional and leisure activities. Medical advances such as joint replacement surgery have been a boon to such patients providing them with a second lease of life with freedom from pain. The arthroplasty unit of Ganga Hospital has played a lead role in increasing the awareness of these cure among the public and carrying the benefits of surgery to the poor and needy. Every year, a walkathon programme is conducted where patients who have undergone total joint replacement participate in a walk and games competition signifying the conquest of pain.