Driving is usually possible after five days when the knee is feeling comfortable. Make sure you can bend and straighten your knee vigorously without pain. Check that you can perform an emergency stop safely.
This information has been written to help steer you through the process of what happens after injuring your knee. It outlines what types on injuries there are, how a diagnosis is made, and what sort of treatment is possible.The knee The knee is a complex joint between the thigh bone (femur) and the shin bone…
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…
The following is a list of “Normal” common events that can occur following surgery: . Swelling: Swelling or “effusion” in the knee is usual until up to three months after surgery. The main aim of the first phase of rehabilitation is to reduce swelling. Difficulty kneeling: After any operation on the front part of the…
Evidence base for Rehabilitation Techniques for cartilage repair have been developed over the last 15 to 20 years but unfortunately there is no detailed scientific basis for rehabilitation programmes. Most of what is followed at the moment is based on a combination of basic science work combined with expert opinions and published techniques with rehabilitation…
Key Publications (in reverse order back to 2004) MN Anomah, SJ Krikler, CE Ackroyd, TJW Spalding, AA Amis. The Principles of an Ideal Patellofemoral Arthroplasty. A review. Submitted to JBJS May 2013. Brown C, Spalding T, Robb, C. International Orthopaedics: Medial portal technique for single-bundle anatomical Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Orthopaedics: Volume 37, Issue…
