Tim is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon based at the University Hospitals Coventry Warwickshire NHS Trust. He qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London in 1982 and completed a fellowship in knee and sports surgery in Toronto, Canada in 1995. He has been specialising in knee surgery since that time. Tim’s interests cover the…
Recent Presentations to learned societies (Since 2007) Spalding TJW Rathinam M, Hussain F. Thompson P. Biological resurfacing of the knee.BASK Spring Meeting, Belfast March 2007 (Poster) Spalding TJW, Rathinam M, Thompson P. The 5 to 9 year results of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation cartilage repair of the knee in active Armed Forces personnelEFORT congress Florence, Italy….
It is important to start exercising your knee as soon as possible because the muscles can become weak quite quickly. After your operation you will have a padded bandage around your knee. You cannot do any harm to your knee by lifting the leg straight, or by bending it, within the confines of the bandage….
This section provides a wealth of information about the knee; conditions that can affect it, treatment options and detail on the operations along with rehabilitation afterwards. These pages are provided for general information only — you should not undertake any part of a programme unless instructed by your consultant or physiotherapist. If you have had…
This information sheet provides information on the nature and purpose of the procedure in addition to an outline of the post-operative rehabilitation
The menisci of the knee make the sockets for the thigh bone to rotate in and they provide the shock absorber for impact loads. If a substantial amount is removed after injury then this can result in early wearing of the joint surfaces. Complete loss of the meniscus usually results in early arthritis developing within…
