Education Center
Trusted articles and educational content to help patients better understand bone and joint health.
25 articles
Treatment decisions
Before choosing your treatment5 articles
Knee osteoarthritis: what to know before deciding on surgery
Explore knee arthritis treatment options, the role of pain and daily limitations, and questions to discuss before choosing nonsurgical care or surgery.
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A meniscus tear: how do we choose between treatments?
Meniscus tears do not always need immediate surgery. Learn about treatment choices, urgent warning signs and questions to ask at your visit.
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Frozen shoulder: understanding your treatment options
A short guide to frozen shoulder: what your doctor examines, which treatment options may be discussed, and useful questions for your appointment.
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Heel pain: does a spur on an X-ray mean surgery?
Does a heel spur on an X-ray mean surgery is needed? Read about possible causes, treatment options, and symptoms needing urgent medical assessment.
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Tingling and numbness in the hand: where to start
Hand numbness has different possible causes. Learn what to note before an appointment, what to ask, and which symptoms need emergency help.
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Understanding your condition and procedure4 articles
Total Knee Replacement: Your Preoperative Guide
Before knee replacement, learn about treatment options, preparation and surgery day, with answers about walking, work and everyday life.
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ACL Reconstruction: Your Preoperative Guide
This guide explains why surgery may be considered, treatment options, preparation, and the day of surgery, and helps you plan your return to everyday life.
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Recurrent Shoulder Dislocation: A Guide to Latarjet and Arthroscopic Labral Repair
Before shoulder surgery, learn about treatment options for recurrent dislocation, why a method is chosen, and preparation and returning to work and sport.
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Total Hip Replacement: Your Preoperative Guide
Before hip replacement, learn about treatment options, the operation, preparing your home, and returning to walking and everyday life.
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Care and rehabilitation11 articles
Total Knee Replacement Surgery: Care and Rehabilitation
Knee replacement care step by step: wound, shower, medicines, clot prevention, knee immobiliser, walker, first 3 months of exercise, driving, work, prayer.
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ACL reconstruction
Care and rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction; if your meniscus was repaired in the same operation, pick your version at the top of the article — the type of repair sets the weight-bearing and knee-bend limits of the first weeks.
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Total Hip Replacement: Care and Rehabilitation After Surgery
Hip replacement care step by step: wound, shower, medicines, clot prevention, walker, movement precautions, exercises, and return to driving, work and prayer.
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Rotator Cuff Tendon Repair
Care and two exercise programmes after rotator cuff repair. With your treating team, choose the stable small and medium tear pathway or the large tear and high-risk repair pathway.
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After Latarjet Shoulder Surgery: Care and Rehabilitation
This guide explains, day by day, wound care and showering, the four-week sling, medicines, warning signs, exercises for each stage with clear movement limits, and when to return to work, driving, swimming and sport after Latarjet surgery.
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Carpal Tunnel Release Aftercare: Wound Care, Finger Movement and Return to Work
A guide to early care after carpal tunnel release: dressings and sutures, gentle finger movement, warning signs and criteria for returning to work and driving.
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Trigger Finger Release Aftercare: Wound Care and Restoring Finger Movement
Wound care, active movement from day one, suture removal and a gradual return to work and driving after trigger finger release.
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Big-Toe Surgery Aftercare for Bunions and Stiffness: Splint Protection and Return to Walking
A short guide to big-toe surgery aftercare: the clinic’s 45-day splint and crutch plan, forefoot protection, and criteria for shoes, driving and sport.
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Other orthopaedic operations: a shared care guide
This guide explains wound, dressing, splint, cast and medicine care after orthopaedic operations without a dedicated article.
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HTO for Bow Legs: Care and Rehabilitation After Surgery
This guide covers care after HTO, walking with 2 crutches, a brace, dressings, phased exercises, and returning to work and sport.
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Recovery after flatfoot surgery with subtalar arthroereisis (Pro Stop)
Learn about care after Pro Stop flatfoot surgery in children and adolescents, including dressings, crutches and returning to school and sport.
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Daily routines and exercise5 articles
Low back pain
Explore daily habits and exercise choices for low back pain. Read each guide's description; suitable exercise depends on your symptoms and assessment.
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Neck pain
Daily routines, home exercises and gym guidance for neck pain. Choose your guide within the article according to your age and whether the pain radiates into your arm.
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Kneecap pain and softening of the cartilage behind the kneecap (chondromalacia)
Choose the version that fits your activity and symptoms, with daily habits, home exercises and gym guidance for front-of-knee pain.
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Hydrotherapy for the Low Back: Twenty Aquatic Exercises for Chronic Back Pain
Learn 20 hydrotherapy exercises for low back pain in four levels, with the water depth for each movement and safety advice before entering the pool.
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Plantar heel pain and Haglund’s prominence
Daily routines, home exercises and gym guidance for plantar heel pain and Haglund’s prominence. Choose the guide that matches the location of your pain.
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