Hand surgery digest Mark Phillips May 2016
The Bone and Joint Journal May 2016 On page 647 there is a review of 77 wrist fusions performed by a single surgeon between 1993 and 2012. The commonest technique, using a dorsal plate from the radius to the 3rd metacarpal was used. The patients were aged around...
Hand Surgery Journal Digest
Mr Mark Phillips reviews the latest Hand surgery literature so you don't have to. The Bone and Joint Journal April 2016 page 519 This paper by D A Lees and others compares elevation of the arm vs exsanguination before tourniquet inflation. It demonstrates that...
3T MRI Technology now aiding LSO’s Hand Surgeons’ Diagnosis. Mr Mark Phillips explains
At LSO we are currently looking at obtaining ‘nervograms’ for the first time. Diffusion Tensor Imaging has been used to look at brain tracts for some time now. There are a few papers from around the world describing this technique for looking at peripheral nerves....
The importance of 3T MRI in the diagnosis of Knee Injuries
Mr Ian McDermott, Managing Partner of London Sports Orthopaedics, shares his expertise, knowledge and a case report: As a specialist knee surgeon seeing large number of patients with knee injuries, I get a lot of people coming to see me for 2nd (or 3rd, or...
Leading knee consultants meet to discuss complex tissue reconstruction
On 3rd February the UK Biological Knee Society held its second annual meeting, at the Oakley Court hotel in Windsor. The BKS was founded by Ian McDermott and Neil Bradbury (knee surgeon in Bath), and is a study group for those surgeons in the UK with a particular...
What a result for Mary and her new Custom-made knee!
Mr Ian McDermott was recently featured in the Orthopaedic Product News magazine, discussing Conformis custom-made knees. Mr McDermott was the first surgeon in the UK to implant a G2 ConforMIS knee prosthesis, and is now one of the UK’s leading surgeons for this...
‘The London Custom-Made Knee Meeting’
LSO Knee surgeons hosted the 'London Custom made Knee meeting' at Glaziers Hall, near London Bridge Hospital on Saturday 28th of November 2015. Here is a short video from the day. We would like to thank the following sponsors of this meeting: Conformis:...
LSO launches new website!
Thanks to the help of the team at Bread Creative, in 2016 London Sports Orthopaedics launched our new website! You can still find us at www.sportsortho.co.uk. There's also much, much more in terms of information, videos, blog and an events calendar. We are thrilled...
Mr Henry Atkinson and the Internal Bracing Technique
Mr Henry Atkinson, Consultant Lower Limb Surgeon, has been lecturing internationally and pioneering the internal bracing technique, and has been expanding its indications to now also include tendon augmentation. Internal bracing has now been successfully used in...
