[Source: Basingstoke Gazette, UK]
A BASINGSTOKE surgeon is working with colleagues from across the world to help revolutionise the way knee injuries are treated.
Dr Steven Claes and Professor Johan Bellemans discovered the tiny, previously unknown ligament after years of research.
Top Basingstoke knee surgeon Adrian Wilson, who works at Basingstoke hospital and the private BMI The Hampshire Clinic, in Old Basing, read their research, and realised he could work with them.
He said: “Steven described the structure, and I knew how to fix it. The technique we use is very similar to an operation we were already doing.”
The operation on the newly-discovered ligament uses ingenious devices called SwiveLocks – tiny ‘anchors’ which can been used to secure tendons.
Surgeons take one of the hamstring tendons and attach it to a SwiveLock at the previously unknown site of the start of the ALL, before drilling to the second site and again securing with a Swive-Lock.
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