Rheumatoid Arthritis: Its Effects on the Knee
To mark Rheumatoid Arthritis awareness week, we are looking at this painful condition and how it can affect the knee joint, as well as other parts of the body.
Hip Pain – Causes and Treatment
Living with chronic hip pain can have a huge impact on your quality of life. Your hips are vital for standing, sitting, walking and running so constant pain can make everyday life and activities extremely challenging.
Training for the London Marathon? You Need to Read This
It’s nearly that time again when thousands of runners, old and young, professional and amateur, experienced and novice, take to the streets of the capital for the annual London Marathon.
Why Knee Injuries Worsen in Cold Weather
As the temperature falls the pain in your injured knee seems to increase. Is this a real phenomenon or simply due to the fact that aches and pains tend to feel worse in the winter? No, you are not imagining it, the fact is that certain types of knee injury really do become more painful when…
How to Avoid Common Winter Sports Injuries
Sadly injury is as much a part of winter sports as snow reports and sun cream. But if you don’t want your long-awaited skiing holiday to be ruined by a torn ligament, damaged joint or fractured ankle, there are some important things you need to know. As orthopaedic surgeons, this is what we would like…
How 3D Bioprinting Promotes Tissue Regeneration
3D printing is already being used to create customised orthopaedic implants for joint replacement surgery. Now, further technological advances are offering a glimpse into the future of orthopaedics whereby synthetic implants could be populated with a patient’s own cells to encourage tissue regeneration.
Things To Say “Yes” To If You Have Arthritis
If you are living with the constant pain of arthritis, it is easy to slip into a negative way of thinking. Arthritis can be debilitating, affecting your day-to-day life in a myriad of different ways. However, the way you think can have a significant effect on your experience of the condition.
5 Top Summer Injuries… And How to Avoid Them
Whether you’re jetting off somewhere exotic, or you’re taking a “staycation” here in the UK, one of the things you don’t want to be bringing back from holiday with you is a strain, fracture or other injury.
Is neck cracking risky?
While the rest of you are cracking nuts this Christmas, is there one member of your family who just can’t resist cracking their joints? Sometimes the people around them are full of dire warnings about the consequence of joint cracking, but are they right?
Stay Safe on the Slopes and Avoid Injury
More than 12 million of us in the UK are preparing to jet off on Winter holidays, according to the Association of British Travel Agents. Are you one of them? If so, are you prepared as best as possible to avoid any winter sports injuries? These range from pulled muscles, cuts and bruises, to more…