London Sports Orthopaedics – Blog

Last Thursday 18th January London Sports Orthopaedics held a grand launch event to officially open the new Research & Outcomes Centre at 31 Old Broad Street.   LSO is the only private orthopaedic practice in The City with a dedicated Research &...

Darius is 55 and he had previous undergone multiple orthopaedic procedures on his right knee, after a severe injury playing American Football. As a result, Darius had developed extremely severe arthritis in his knee, with stiffness, pain and reduced function. When...

On Monday and Tuesday of last week London Sports Orthopaedics and London Bridge Hospital hosted Dr Edgars Ginevics, Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Riga Trauma and Orthopedic Hospital, Latvia as part of the Vivostat Centre of Excellence surgical...

Have you caught Wimbledon fever? Keen to get out on the court and strut your Andy Murray serve?You should read this first! Ian McDermott featured in Sloan Magazine discussing how to avoid injury! Should you need an Orthopaedic opinion on your knee injury, please...

LSO's Managing Director and top Knee Consultant Mr Ian McDermott has been featured in the press discussing the retirees of the future - "active age" pensioners rather than ‘old age pensioners’ - with goals of travel, spending time outdoors and living life to...

London Sports Orthopaedics consultants are forever thankful for the incredible physiotherapy and rehabilitation teams who help their patients. It is not only city patients with neck pain from too much computer use, or ankle sprains from overdoing that half marathon...

This article by Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Ian McDermott was published today in the Huffington Post  According to the Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project, there were 645 match injuries that led to time lost from training and/or match play in the...

With the London Marathon approaching in less than two months, "Runner's Knee" is a common complaint of patients seen by Consultant Knee Surgeon Ian McDermott. Ian was featured this week in the Huffington Post, where he discussed the gradual build up of training...

Last week LSO's Consultant Knee Surgeon Mr Ian McDermott performed his 100th Conformis custom-made knee replacement surgery at London Bridge Hospital.   Ian was joined by Mr Graham Cowther, the Conformis Managing Director and Stewart Fraser, the rep for...

On Friday 3rd February Mr Ian McDermott hosted the 3rd Annual Meeting of the UK Biological Knee Society, at The Vale Resort in Cardiff.  Fifty of the UK's top specialist knee surgeons attended the meeting, which included a fantastic programme of...

Consultant hand & wrist surgeon, Mr Mark Phillips, has been looking after a large number of musicians with hand problems lately. This has piqued Mark's interest in hand problems in performing arts.  Mark is a member of the British Association for...

And the technical advances in the field of knee surgery continue to race forward! The latest advance in the field of complex knee reconstruction is the introduction of a new ‘autologous bioabsorbable bioactive biological glue’, called Vivostat PRF. There are...

This week we are thrilled to share a guest blog post written by Nell Mead, Director at Nell Mead Physiotherapist. The best surgical results occur when three things align: a great surgeon, a great patient, and a great physio/rehab team, all communicating and working...

As part of the 'Hospital Innovations Centre of Excellence' award, Ian McDermott, of London Sports Orthopaedics and London Bridge Hospital, has been designated as a training centre for surgeons wanting to learn how to do meniscal transplantation. Jon Smith, a...

Mr Ian McDermott's patient 71 year-old Margaret Baker was featured in the Sunday Mirror on 7th November, in the operation case study column “Your op”. Mary said "In May I became the first person in Britain to get a new type knee replacement. After years of...

The study demonstrates iTotal CR Customized Implants better approximate normal knee motion when compared to a leading "Off-the-Shelf" Total Knee Implant. The Head-to-head study published in The Journal of Arthroplasty also demonstrated improved mid-flexion...

Henry Atkinson presented at the International Serbian Orthopaedic and Trauma Association meeting on the 13th of October 2016, in Belgrade, Serbia. There were over 600 attendees from around the world including the Presidents of the Chinese and Japanese Orthopaedic...

Consultant Knee Surgeon Ian McDermott has been working with Alan Rayner and his team from the Perfusion department of London Bridge Hospital with the autologous, bioabsorbable, bio-active glue Vivostat PRF. Ian was recently featured in the Health Matters magazine...

Mark has just got back from France where he has competed in the latest Etape du Tour (the mountain stage of the Tour de France that 15000 amateur road cyclists can have a go at before the Tour gets there next week). This year was the stage from Megeve to Morzine,...

Mr Ian McDermott, Consultant Knee Surgeon and Managing Partner of LSO, has recently performed the UK’s first ever Conformis iTotal-PS knee replacement, at The London Bridge Hospital. Conformis make what many agree is the world’s best knee replacement prosthesis,...