Posts Tagged ‘knee injury’
Make it a must: this super Scottish film smashes male stereotypes
The Herald: Neil Mackay: 13/02/2025 There’s a moment in Make it to Munich which floods you with happy-sadness, that feeling when you want to smile and cry at the same time, when the goodness in the world is so rich and full it catches you in the throat. The moment is both simple and sublime:…
Read MoreNew 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…
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…
Read MoreStudy shows excellent outcomes for combined ACL repair and ALL Internal Brace augmentation
Our knees are subjected to powerful forces especially when we play sport and surgeons, we are always working to improve our clinical knowledge of how repair affects patient outcomes after injury and subsequent surgery. This paper published in December 2020 shows the results from a two-year study. It demonstrates that the small additional augmentation of…
Read MoreWelcome to our first newsletter
We are delighted to launch our first newsletter which we will be publishing biannually as a round-up of what has been happening at The Mackay Clinic. Obviously the start of 2020 has been overtaken by the corona pandemic which involved Professor Mackay closing the clinic for a while and heading off to volunteer for the…
Read MoreNikki is riding high!
Great to see this super piece in Scottish Rider about former patient Nikki Corstorphine. Some of you may remember seeing our video of her story after she suffered a bad fall from a bucking horse and sustained a horrendous knee injury. She subsequently had all the ligaments in her knee InternallyBraced in a multi-ligament operation.…
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