Rehabilitation Protocol
Important Information for rehabilitation (to be completed by surgeon)
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…
Tim Spalding is one of the lead developers of the UK National Ligament Registry launched at BASK (British Knee Society Meeting) in March 2013. For detailed information see the website www.uknlr.co.uk or the attached pdf file All knee surgeons are encouraged to register through the website and to enter their patients into this nationally approved…
For a video on the operative technique for Meniscal AllograftTransplantation please go to the VuMedi website where Mr Spalding hasuploaded a video of the technique – click image on the left to be taken to site.
Sports Knee Surgery Conference Novemeber 2013: Tim meets up with his old knee fellows From around the world Tims ex-knee fellows joined him at his International knee conference held at the new Football Association Sports Medicine centre St Georges Park. A fellow is a senior trainee undergoing final training before becoming a specialist knee surgeon…
The ‘keyhole surgery’ operation to reconstruct the ACL involves replacing it with other strong tendons from areas around the knee. Two main grafts are in common use: the Hamstring Tendon graft and the Patella Tendon graft. Both are considered to be equally good and the choice usually depends on the surgeon’s preference. Currently the Hamstring…
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