InternalBrace
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…
Read MoreRangers’ 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreMarathon 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…
Read MoreSource: 49ers QB Brock Purdy has torn UCL in right elbow
Nick Wagoner – ESPN Staff Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. — An offseason that already figured to have plenty of quarterback-centric questions for the San Francisco 49ers now has even more. In the first quarter of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, Niners rookie quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow that…
Read MoreMeet the player-turned-professor revolutionising ACL surgery
The Athletic By Jordan Campbell 11/01/23 In his green and blue chequered kilt, Professor Gordon Mackay was proclaimed the ‘Godfather’ by Brazil’s national-team surgeon Dr Moises Cohen. The Scot had been invited out to Sao Paulo to explain his groundbreaking internal brace (IB) technique to leading South American surgeons who work in the football world,…
Read MoreGoalkeeper Lauren Perry on loving penalty shootouts and beating ACL rupture – podcast
We had the pleasure of welcoming goalkeeper Lauren Perry to the Surgical Goals Podcast Lauren played for Linfield Ladies Football Club and then in her first international aged just 16 for the Northern Ireland National Team Now 21, her career has gone from strength to strength. Prof Mackay first met Lauren when she ruptured her…
Read MoreGood news as we launch into 2022
A very Happy New Year to everyone. We are starting the new year with good news as more clinical InternalBrace research papers are published. Both of these relate to the knee. The first looks in detail at the outcome of a severe multi-ligament knee injury. Taking this extreme case the paper debates that InternalBrace surgery…
Read MoreTaking gold in Tokyo and a push for Beijing – Newsletter #3
Following a quieter 2020, this year has so far been incredibly busy as the world tries to get back on track. One standout moment for us all at the Mackay Clinic was watching former patient Kathleen Dawson swim to glorious gold in the pool at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. But there have been lot…
Read MoreCongratulations to former patient taking gold in pool at Tokyo Olympics
Massive congratulations to Scottish swimmer Kathleen Dawson who has had the most amazing Tokyo 2020 Olympics She was part of the team in the mixed 4x100m Medley who took gold and set a blazing new World Record time. She also reached the finals in the women’s 100m Backstroke finishing 6th. All the more impressive as…
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