Inspiring trustee visit to The Duncan Hospital, Bihar

Prof Mackay has been operating in a different theatre this week – as a trustee of our supported charity The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust he has been in India on a visit to The Duncan Hospital in Bihar, catching up on the progress of some of the projects and staff sponsorships that the charity funds.…

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Nursing a Future at The Duncan Hospital, Bihar

News from our sponsored Charity The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust who are soon to begin fundraising in the hope of raising £1,100 every 6 months to open the opportunity to train as a nurse at The Duncan to 2 girls who otherwise, due to impoverished backgrounds, would never be able to consider a career in…

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Podcast: ACL Research – we talk to global expert Professor Kate Webster

Women’s football is full of talk about an ACL injury ‘epidemic’ – but is this really the case? To help us find answers we were delighted to welcome to the podcast, world-leading ACL injury research expert Professor Kate Webster who is Director of the Sport, Exercise, and Research Focus Area at La Trobe University in…

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Knee Deep – all that’s new from the Warsaw Joint Congress 2023

Professor Mackay was delighted to be invited recently to join The Faculty at the 10th Anniversary Congress of Joint Preservation in Warsaw. Once again organised by Konrad Slynarski and Jacek Walawski it pulled together the experiences not only of International experts but also from a local Faculty as well. The anterior knee and patellofemoral joint…

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New Podcast: Innovations in sports knee injury treatments

In our latest podcast episode, we look at what’s new in the fields of sports knee injury treatments and prevention. Prof Mackay recently attended the 8th joint Preservation Congress in Warsaw where some of the world’s finest knee surgeons, researchers, and rehab experts gathered to discuss new treatments and their findings. So for the latest…

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Rangers’ Scott Wright – my ACL rupture and recovery

Watching Rangers winger Scott Wright today play his usual fast, attacking game you would never guess that in his Aberdeen FC days, he suffered every footballer’s nightmare – a ruptured ACL.  Joining us in this episode alongside Scott is Adam Stokes who was club Physio at the time and played a huge role in Scott’s…

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The modern-day ACL surgeon’s armamentarium should include multiple surgical approaches – Letter to the Editor

Following publication of a recent ACL survey, multi-authors, including Professor Mackay write that future surveys include a “complete representation of the surgical (primary repair, augmentation, and reconstruction), and non-surgical options to treat the ACL injured patient”.This open letter to the Editor was published in ISAKOS Journal Read the full Letter here with links to all…

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Marathon Man’s Achilles rupture recovery

Patient Story: Absolutely loved getting these photos into the office this morning. Former patient Richard Hamilton after completing the Paris Marathon 2023 in a highly respectable sub-5 hour time. What makes this a really remarkable achievement though is the fact that Richard had InternalBrace surgery with Prof Mackay on a ruptured Achilles just 24 weeks…

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