Orthopaedic treatments

Each page is a patient guide, not a duplicate of the homepage. Open the topic that matches your problem. If you are unsure, start with sports injuries, knee pain, or book a consultation.

• Sports Injury Care

  Sports injuries are not limited to professional athletes. Football on a weekend, a gym session, cricket nets, a school tournament or a sudden twist while running can all injure ligaments, cartilage, tendons or bone.

• Arthroscopic Surgery

  Arthroscopy is a surgical technique that uses a small camera and instruments through several small incisions to look inside a joint and, when appropriate, treat the problem that is found.

• ACL Reconstruction

  The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) helps keep the tibia from sliding too far forward on the femur and contributes to rotational stability of the knee. A tear often happens during a sudden change of direction, landing from a jump, or a contact injury in sport.

• PCL Reconstruction

  The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is the main restraint to the tibia sliding backwards under the femur. Isolated PCL injuries are less common than ACL tears and are often linked to a blow on the front of a bent knee — including dashboard injuries in road traffic accidents.

• Meniscus Treatment

  The menisci are two crescent-shaped cartilage pads that share load and help the knee feel stable. A tear can happen in sport, during a squat, or as the tissue becomes more brittle with age.

• Shoulder Arthroscopy

  Shoulder arthroscopy allows inspection of the rotator cuff, labrum, biceps tendon and joint surfaces through small incisions. It may be used to repair certain tendon tears, stabilise a shoulder that keeps dislocating, or address mechanical impingement in carefully selected patients.

• Rotator Cuff Treatment

  The rotator cuff is a group of tendons that keep the ball of the shoulder centred as you lift and rotate the arm. Pain when reaching overhead, night pain lying on the shoulder, and weakness after a fall are typical reasons people attend clinic.

• Shoulder Instability Treatment

  A shoulder that has dislocated, or that feels as if it will slip, needs a careful story: first-time traumatic dislocation is different from loose joints in a young hypermobile person, and different again from a seizure-related injury.

• Orthopaedic Trauma Care

  Orthopaedic trauma covers broken bones, dislocations, and associated ligament or soft-tissue injury after falls, road traffic accidents, sports collisions and workplace incidents.

• Fracture Treatment

  A fracture is a break in bone. Some cracks are tiny and easy to miss on a first X-ray; others are obviously displaced. Treatment is chosen to restore alignment and stability so the bone can heal and the joint above and below can move again.

• Complex Trauma Surgery

  Complex trauma includes injuries that involve several bones, a joint surface that is badly broken, open fractures, or fractures that have not healed in a good position. These cases take more planning, sometimes more than one operation, and a longer rehabilitation horizon.

• Joint Preservation

  Joint preservation means trying to keep your own joint working well for as long as it is reasonable — through load management, physiotherapy, selected osteotomies, cartilage or meniscus procedures, and injections — rather than moving straight to replacement.

• Knee Replacement

  Knee replacement is considered when arthritis or severe joint damage causes pain and limitation that have not responded adequately to non-surgical care, and when X-rays show joint surfaces that are worn enough to explain the symptoms.

• Hip Replacement

  Hip replacement is used for painful arthritis, some cases of avascular necrosis, and selected fractures of the hip in older adults. The worn ball and socket are replaced so that bone-on-bone grinding is reduced.

• Joint Replacement

  Joint replacement is a family of operations that swap worn joint surfaces for implants. The knee and hip are the most common. Shoulder replacement is less frequent and is planned only for specific diagnoses.

• Paediatric Orthopaedics

  Children’s bones are still growing. A fracture through a growth plate, a limp that does not settle, or a deformity noticed by a parent needs an approach that protects future growth, not a scaled-down adult operation.

• Injection Therapies

  Injections can reduce inflammation, ease a flare of arthritis, or support a rehabilitation plan for some tendon and joint problems. They are adjuncts, not magic.