Posts Tagged ‘Mackay Clinic’
Jets QB Aaron Rodgers aims for potential playoff return after innovative surgery on torn Achilles
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers is targeting an improbable playoff return from his torn Achilles after undergoing an innovative surgery on Wednesday in Los Angeles — a procedure designed to accelerate the normal rehabilitation process from such an injury. Sources say renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache and his team performed a procedure to…
Read MoreSporting an Injury? My journey into Sports Surgery
Professor Mackay was delighted to be a contributor to the 40th-anniversary edition of The Bulletin magazine from the Royal College of Surgeons England: From professional football to elite sport surgery, Professor Gordon Mackay details his journey throughout his career and what it takes to treat and operate on professional athletes. My journey into elite sport…
Read MoreHIKING: Why are everyone’s knees buggered from hiking and trail running?
We ask orthopaedic surgeon Prof Gordon Mackay, and a walking pole expert, how to protect our knees in wild places… By Stuart Kenny Maybe it’s your best friend. Maybe it’s your colleague. There’s a good chance that you’re impacted by the issue yourself. The anecdotal truth that everyone’s knees are buggered seems to now be…
Read MoreKnife in the fast lane with Bill Ribbans sports surgeon to the stars
When Prof Mackay’s great friend and mentor Professor Bill Ribbans was in Scotland recently at our 10-year InternalBrace celebration we took the chance to record an episode with him for our Surgical Goals podcast. Over his 40-year career, Bill has operated on some of the world’s best-known sports stars and he has recently encapsulated his…
Read MoreAnterior cruciate ligament repair with Internal Brace augmentation: A systematic review (March 2022)
Abstract -Background: Primary repair of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures has re-emerged as a treatment option for proximal tears, with internal brace augmentation often utilised. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the current evidence presenting outcomes of ACL repair with internal bracing to assess the safety and efficacy of this…
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.…
Read MoreThe InternalBrace – transforming the management of ligament injuries
This first appeared in Orthopaedic Product News in September 2018 For more than 30 years the accepted orthopaedic approach to joint instability, secondary to ligament injury, has been reconstruction with allograft or autograft in both the acute and chronic situation The quest for anatomical repair and restoration of function has been superseded by reconstruction with…
Read MoreSlow play intervention brought Paul Lawrie a bad reaction
Published in The Courier 20/02/19 By Steve Scott. Read online here Trying to use peer pressure among fellow golf professionals to end slow play doesn’t work – and Paul Lawrie has lost friends as a result. The former Open champion, slowly making a return to playing competitively after ankle surgery, was yesterday launching the Farmfoods…
Read MoreChina life – cold but competitive
Our sponsored skier Iain Innes has been very busy since his last update so it was great to get this latest bulletin from him. “Since I last updated you I have spent nearly a month training and racing in China, 10 days back in Austria, and a short break visiting my family at home in…
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