Knee Injuries

Our specialist knee surgeons treat patients suffering from knee injury and conditions affecting the knee joint.  Our surgeons have particular expertise in treating sports injuries and work with many of the UK's sports clubs and professional bodies.

We are a centre of excellence in orthopaedics, offering the rare and unique facility of diagnosis and treatment of such a comprehensive range of conditions in the one centre.  Our team of expert orthopaedic consultants and physicians offer the very highest standards of medical and surgical care using the most cutting-edge procedures within our state-of-the-art unit.

UK Athletics have selected our hospital as their London medical base, looking after the medical needs of Team GB's track and field athletes for the London 2012 Olympics and beyond.

Many of our consultants specialise in arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery techniques.

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Conditions commonly treated:

• Ligament injuries including anterior and posterior cruciate (ACL and PCL) , medial and lateral collateral ligaments tears and injuries to the posterolateral corner
• Meniscus injuries including meniscal tears
• Knee pain including anterior knee pain
• Cartilage injury
• Knee Arthritis

Common surgical treatments:

• Ligament reconstruction
• Meniscal repair
• Meniscal replacement
• Meniscal transplant
• Cartilage repair
• Cartilage replacement
• Patellofemoral surgery
• Fracture repair
• Posterolateral corner reconstruction
• Total knee replacement (arthroplasty)
• Partial knee replacement (arthroplasty)

Conservative treatments

• Physiotherapy: The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth has an extensive physiotherapy department with a fully customised gym.
• Therapeutic injections: Injections into the knee joint can either be provided by the orthopaedic surgeon or image guided therapies are performed in the xray department by specialist musculoskeletal radiologists.